Keywords
Design for Accessibility
Communication Impairments
Assistive Technologies
Keywords
Communication Impairments
Assistive Technologies
Design for Accessibility
Partners | Funders
Stroke Association
Funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council UK Digital Economy Programme (EPSRC) EP/I001824/1
Publications
Wilson, S., Roper, A., Marshall, J., Galliers, J., Devane, N., Booth, T., & Woolf, C. (2015). Codesign for people with aphasia through tangible design languages. CoDesign, 11(1), 21–34. https://doi.org/10.1080/15710882.2014.997744
Marshall, J., Roper, A., Galliers, J., Wilson, S., Cocks, N., Muscroft, S., & Pring, T. (2013). Computer delivery of gesture therapy for people with severe aphasia. Aphasiology, 27(9), 1128–1146. https://doi.org/10.1080/02687038.2013.786803
Galliers, J., Wilson, S., Roper, A., Cocks, N., Marshall, J., Muscroft, S., & Pring, T. (2012). Words are not enough: empowering people with aphasia in the design process. Proceedings of the 12th Participatory Design Conference: Research Papers - Volume 1, 51–60. https://doi.org/10.1145/2347635.2347643
Project Summary
In recent research we have investigated whether gesture production can be enhanced by therapy and the initial evidence from face-to-face therapy is encouraging. However gesture therapy is resource-intensive. Our goal was to develop and pilot an innovative gesture training tool to be used in aphasia therapy at home.
By refining and adapting existing gesture recognition technology, the project developed a computer gesture therapy tool (GeST) and investigated whether practice with GeST would improve gesture production and/or spoken naming of users with severe aphasia. It was also explored whether GeST encouraged independent practice and was easy and enjoyable to use.
GReaT
Gesture Recognition in Aphasia Therapy
