Aphasia Project: Publications

Articles

• Ma, X., Boyd-Graber, J., Nikolova, S. and Cook, P. (2009).“Speaking Through Pictures: Images vs. Icons”. Proc. ASSETS’09 [PDF].
• Nikolova, S., Boyd-Graber, J., Fellbaum, C. and Cook, P. (2009). "Better Vocabularies for Assistive Communication Aids: Connecting Terms using Semantic Networks and Untrained Annotators". Proc. ASSETS’09 (to appear).
• Nikolova, S., Boyd-Graber, J. and Fellbaum, C. "Collecting Semantic Similarity Ratings to Connect Concepts in Assistive Communication Tools". Modelling, Learning and Processing of Text-Technological Data Structures, Springer Studies in Computational Intelligence, 2009 (book chapter in press).
• Ma, X., Nikolova, S. and Cook, P. (2009). W²ANE: When Words Are Not Enough–Online Multimedia Language Assistant for People with Aphasia. Proc ACM Multimedia’09 [PDF].
• Ma, X. and Cook, P. R. (2009). How well do visual verbs work in daily communication for young and old adults?. Proc. of ACM CHI 2009, 361-364. [PDF]
• Nikolova, S., Boyd-Graber, J. and Cook, P. (2009). The Design of ViVA: a Mixed-Initiative Visual Vocabulary for Aphasia. Proc. of ACM CHI 2009 Extended Abstracts, 4015-4020.
• Ma, X. and Cook, P. R. (2008). Creating and Evaluating a Video Vocabulary for Communicating Verbs for Different Age Groups. Proc. of ACM ASSETS 2008 Extended Abstracts, 253-254. [PDF]
• Nikolova, S. and Ma, X. (2008). Assistive Mobile Communication Support. Proceedings of the ACL-08: HLT Workshop on Mobile Language Processing.
• Moffatt, K., Nikolova, S., Ma, X. & Boyd-Graber, J. (2007). “The Aphasia Project: Designing Technology For and With Individuals who Have Aphasia”. Workshop on Intelligent Systems for Assisted Cognition, 2007.
• Allen, M., McGrenere, J. and Purves, B. (2007). The design and field evaluation of PhotoTalk: a digital image communication application for people with aphasia. Proc. of ACM ASSETS 2007, (to appear). [PDF]
• Moffatt, K., & McGrenere, J. (2007). Slipping and Drifting: Using older adults to uncover pen-based target acquisition difficulties. To appear in Proceedings of ASSETS 2007: 9th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, (to appear).
• Boyd-Graber, J., Nikolova, S., Moffatt, K., Kin, K., Lee, J., Mackey, L., Tremaine, M., and Klawe, M. (2006). Participatory Design with Proxies: Developing a Desktop-PDA System to Support People with Aphasia. Proc. of ACM CHI 2006, 151 - 160. [PDF]
• Boyd-Graber, J., and Nikolova, S. (2006). Design with Proxies: A Desktop-PDA System for People with Aphasia. Position paper at the CHI06 workshop on Designing Technology for People with Cognitive Impairments. [PDF]
• McGrenere, J., Sullivan, J., and Baecker, R.M. (2006). Designing technology for people with cognitive impairments. Workshop in the Extended Abstracts of CHI06, 1631-1634. [PDF]
• Moffatt, K., Findlater, L., and Allen, M. (2006). Generalizability in research with cognitively impaired individuals. Position paper at the CHI06 workshop on Designing Technology for People with Cognitive Impairments. [PDF]
• Tee, K., Moffatt, K., Findlater, L., Macgregor, E., McGrenere, J., Purves, B., and Fels, S. (2005). A visual recipe book for persons with language impairments. Proc. of ACM CHI 2005, 501-510. [PDF]
• Davies, R., Marcella, S., McGrenere, J., and Purves, B. The Ethnographically Informed Participatory Design of a PDA Application to Support Communication.  Proc. of ACM ASSETS 2004, 153-160. [PDF]
• Moffatt, K., McGrenere, J., Purves, B., and Klawe, M. (2004). The participatory design of a sound and image enhanced daily planner for people with aphasia. Proc. of ACM CHI 2004, 407-414. [PDF]
• McGrenere, J., R. Davies, L. Findlater, P. Graf, M. Klawe, K. Moffatt, B. Purves, and S. Yang. "Insights from the Aphasia Project: Designing Technology For and With People who have Aphasia." Proc. CUU 2003, ACM Press (2003), 112-118. [PDF]
• Moffatt, K., R. Davies, L. Findlater, and J. McGrenere.  "Participatory Design with Aphasic Individuals."  Poster Presentation.  Appeared in Graphics Interface 2003.  Halifax, Canada, 2003. Abstract [PDF]  Poster [PDF]
• Sullivan, J. and J. McGrenere.  "Designing cognitive technologies for people with disabilities - perspectives for theory and practice." Panel Discussion. Proc. of CUU 2003, ACM Press (2003), 148-149. [PDF]

Theses/Reports

• Song, Y. (2009). Designing the ViVA Interface: A Multi-Modal Sentence Construction Tool for Aphasia. Undergraduate Independent Work Final Report, Princeton University.
• Clifton, Z. (2008). AphasiaFox: A Mozilla Firefox Extension Opening up the Internet for People with Aphasia. Undergraduate Independent Work Final Report, Princeton University.
• Allen, M. (2006). The Design and Field Evaluation of PhotoTalk: A Digital Image Communication Application for People who have Aphasia. Master's Thesis, University of British Columbia. [PDF]
• Kin, K. ‘06, Lee, J. ‘05, and Mackey, L. ‘07 (2005). The ESI-Planner II Project: A Daily Planner and Rehearsal Tool for Aphasic Individuals. Undergraduate Independent Work Final Report, Princeton University. [PDF]
• Moffatt, K. (2004). Designing Technology For and With Special Populations: An Exploration of Participatory Design with People with Aphasia. Master's Thesis, University of British Columbia. [PDF]
• Davies, R. (2004) The Ethnographically Informed Participatory Design of a PDA Application to Support Communication. Master's Thesis, University of British Columbia. [PDF]