1. AAC Tool ─ Daily Communication boards
Name: Yuyuan Liu
Class: CMPT 479
Date:

2. Context of Use
Existing AAC Tools don’t provide useful daily communication boards
Require less from users
Easy and fast conversation
Non-verbal users and who they communicate with/to
Foreigner who don’t speak the local language
Children

3. Analysis Software Compass 2.0 Various topics, useful boards
Mind Express 4
Basic topics with few sentences
Proloquo2Go
Few topics
Widgit Go
Various topics, some not common

4. Analysis
Literature
Daily conversation topics with example
“A comparison of the graphic symbol utterances arranged by children with little or no functional speech and children with typical development”
Sentence meaning and symbol sequence
Penkler, Stephanie Nandl, 2013
“An Investigation of Developmental Changes in Interpretation and Construction of Graphic AAC Symbol Sequences through Systematic Combination of Input and Output Modalities”
Young children interpret symbols
Trudeau, Natacha ; Sutton, Ann ; Morford, Jill Trudeau, Natacha

5. Methodology Activities Reading Context of Use report
Explore existing AAC tools
Finding literatures
Categorizing and combining
Specific sentences
Transfer to symbol-based

6. Methodology Problems and solution Limited information from AAC tools
Video, official websites
Searched with “wrong” key words, no relevant result
Try and use the existing result to narrow down
Finding symbols
Try different sets

7. Design/Result Existing AAC tools boards
Mind Express 4, basic expression
Compass 2.0, various topics

8. Design/Result … Daily activities→ Daily communication Care of others
Basic Greeting
Greeting someone you know
Management
Appointment
Planning …

9. Design/Result Basic greeting Nice to meet you
What do you do for a living
Pardon me? or

10. Design/Report
Select from different symbol sets
Nice to meet you

11. What’s next … Symbol sets Categorizing
Automatically replacing some symbols in system provided boards