Background: Using gesture as a compensatory communication strategy may be challenging
for people with severe aphasia. Therapy can improve skills with gesture, at least in elicitation …

Computing systems have a tremendous influence on how we understand the world. Due to
its ubiquity and pervasiveness over the past decade, computing technology has created …

Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) devices enable speech-based
communication, but generating speech is not the only resource needed to have a successful …

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) could potentially provide independent mobility to people with
physical and sensory disabilities. It is critical to understand the needs of people with …

Meta-level abduction is a method to abduce missing rules in explaining observations. By
representing rule structures of a problem in a form of causal networks, meta-level abduction …

This Work-in-Progress paper describes current work and future challenges of co-designing
social robots with cognitively impaired residents. The project has in time of writing ran more …

The notion of'giving voice'to under-represented groups in design is fraught with issues of
power and interpretation. This workshop will address socio-methodological issues at play …

Purpose Language and communication disorders can inhibit participation in activities that
have potential therapeutic benefits for recovery. This exploratory research examined the …

Purpose Every adult with aphasia displays a unique constellation of language
comprehension skills and varies in the benefit derived from different content presentation …

This paper reports the experience of participating in usability testing from the perspective of
a person with aphasia. We briefly report adaptations to classic usability testing to enable the …