- Abstract:
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Children with communication impairments are often reliant on communication aids, but these give little scope for generating novel language. This inhibits experimentation with language and limits experimentation with humorous ideas.
Language-impaired children and adolescents have been found to have significantly poorer comprehension of humour than their peers with typical language development (O'Mara, 2004; Spector, 1990; Spector, 1992). The STANDUP (System To Augment Non-speakers Dialogue Using Puns) project is addressing this deficiency by providing software which allows the user to experiment with the construction of simple jokes. This computer-facilitated joke generation will allow non-speaking children to play with novel language in a similar way to children with typically developing language skills.
The underlying joke generating mechanism is based on previous work on the automated generation of punning riddles and is described elsewhere (Binsted and Ritchie, 2001). This paper focuses on the issues encountered when designing a user interface which must be accessible to children with a variety of communication, language and physical disabilities. In particular, methods for including users at the requirements gathering stage are presented.
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- Bibtex format
- @InProceedings{EDI-INF-RR-1142,
- author = {
Annalu Waller
and Dave O'Mara
and Hisar Maruli Manurung
and Helen Pain
and Graeme Ritchie
},
- title = {Facilitating user feedback in the design of a novel joke generation system for people with severe communication impairment.},
- book title = {Proceedings of HCII 2005, 22-27 July, 2005, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA G. Salvendy (Ed)},
- publisher = {Lawrence Erlbaum, NJ, USA},
- year = 2005,
- month = {Jul},
- volume = {5},
- }
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