Designing aacs for people with aphasia dining in restaurants

Mmachi God Sglory Obiorah; Anne Marie Piper; Michael Horn

doi:10.1145/3411764.3445280

Designing aacs for people with aphasia dining in restaurants

Mmachi God Sglory Obiorah, Anne Marie Piper, Michael Horn

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Abstract

There is a growing need to design augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) devices that focus on supporting quality of life goals, such as increased social participation in leisurely activities. Yet, designing AAC applications that support leisurely activities is difcult, as the activity might require novel and specifc language in a timely manner. Through observations and contextual interviews with people with aphasia, their social partners, and speech-language therapists, we characterize the important but challenging nature of supporting one specifc leisure activity: meal ordering in restaurants. Based on our observational and interview data, we design and explore three prototype AAC systems to support people with aphasia in ordering meals in restaurants. Each prototype integrates a diferent AI technology, contributing insights into how AI may enhance AAC usage and design. The study opens up questions of designing accessible restaurant experiences for neurodivergent people and the role of AI in AAC devices more broadly.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	CHI 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Subtitle of host publication	Making Waves, Combining Strengths
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450380966
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445280
State	Published - May 6 2021
Event	10th International Conference on Materials Processing and Characterisation, ICMPC 2020 - Mathura, U.P., India Duration: Feb 21 2020 → Feb 23 2020

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Name	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

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Conference	10th International Conference on Materials Processing and Characterisation, ICMPC 2020
Country/Territory	India
City	Mathura, U.P.
Period	2/21/20 → 2/23/20

Funding

This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation (grant IIS-1551574). Any opinions, fndings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily refect the views of the NSF. We also want to thank Aaron Wilkins, Edna Babbit and participants in this study for sharing their immense knowledge about aphasia and experiences with us.

Keywords

Aphasia
Augmentative and alternative communication
Language impairments

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software
Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design

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Obiorah, M. G. S., Piper, A. M., & Horn, M. (2021). Designing aacs for people with aphasia dining in restaurants. In CHI 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Making Waves, Combining Strengths (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445280

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Obiorah, MGS, Piper, AM & Horn, M 2021, Designing aacs for people with aphasia dining in restaurants. in CHI 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Making Waves, Combining Strengths. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings, Association for Computing Machinery, 10th International Conference on Materials Processing and Characterisation, ICMPC 2020, Mathura, U.P., India, 2/21/20. https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445280

Designing aacs for people with aphasia dining in restaurants. / Obiorah, Mmachi God Sglory; Piper, Anne Marie; Horn, Michael.
CHI 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Making Waves, Combining Strengths. Association for Computing Machinery, 2021. (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings).

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