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  • Capturing Phrases for ICU-Talk, a Communication Aid for Intubated Intensive Care Patients

    S. Ashraf, A. Judson, I. W. Ricketts, A. Waller, N. Alm, B. Gordon, F. MacAulay, J. K. Brodie, M. Etchels, A. Warden, A. J. Shearer · 2002 · Proceedings of the Fifth International ACM Conference on Assistive Technologies (Assets 02)

    This paper describes the vocabulary gathering methods used for ICU-Talk, a three-year multidisciplinary project at the University of Dundee and Ninewells Hospital that developed an augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) aid specifically for intubated intensive care…

    augmentative and alternative communication · AAC · intensive care · vocabulary selection · phrase-based communication

  • ICU-Talk, A Communication Aid for Intubated Intensive Care Patients

    F. MacAulay, A. Judson, M. Etchels, S. Ashraf, I. W. Ricketts, A. Waller, J. K. Brodie, N. Alm, A. Warden, A. J. Shearer, B. Gordon · 2002 · Proceedings of the Fifth International ACM Conference on Assistive Technologies (Assets 02)

    This paper describes ICU-Talk, a computer-based communication aid developed specifically for intubated patients in hospital intensive care units (ICUs) who are temporarily unable to speak due to breathing tubes inserted through their mouth or throat. The three-year…

    augmentative and alternative communication · AAC · intensive care · intubation · hospital communication

  • A Predictive Blissymbolic to English Translation System

    Annalu Waller, Kris Jack · 2002 · Proceedings of the Fifth International ACM Conference on Assistive Technologies (Assets '02)

    This paper addresses a fundamental limitation of Blissymbolics in electronic AAC: while Blissymbol users can compose messages by selecting symbols, converting those symbol sequences into grammatically correct English is non-trivial. Blissymbolics is a semantic graphic language…

    AAC · Blissymbolics · natural language processing · symbol communication · predictive text

  • Assistive Social Interaction for Non-Speaking People Living in the Community

    Nick Hine, John L. Arnott · 2002 · Proceedings of the Fifth International ACM Conference on Assistive Technologies (Assets '02)

    This paper addresses the social isolation experienced by non-speaking people living independently in the community, a problem intensified by the shift from institutional to community-based care in the UK. The authors argue that while community care aims to improve quality of…

    AAC · social isolation · community care · videoconferencing · multimedia

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