Penn State students work to add “tone of voice” to AAC devices
A recent article in the Penn State news describes the work of student engineering teams to add “tone of voice” to AAC devices.
RERC on AAC (2016 Update)
The RERC on AAC partners used this forum to present our individual projects and discuss our progress through Year 1.
Soliciting BCI user experience feedback (Peters et al., 2016)
This article describes augmentative and alternative communication (AAC)-based techniques for obtaining feedback from this population, and presents results from administration of a modified questionnaire to 12 individuals with SSPI after trials with a BCI spelling system.
2016 Student Research & Design Competition: Tone of Voice in AAC Systems
The RERC on AAC Student Research and Design Competition is designed to stimulate research and development on the topic of tone of voice in AAC systems.
Operational demands of AAC mobile technology (Caron et al., 2016)
Results suggest that apps with fewer programming steps may reduce operational demands and better support professionals to (a) respond to the child’s input, (b) use just-in-time programming during interactions, (c) provide access to more vocabulary, and (d) increase participation.