Evaluating the STANDUP pun generating software with children with cerebral palsy

ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Waller, Annalu ^a   Black, Rolf ^a   O'mara, David A ^a   Pain, Helen ^b   Ritchie, Graeme ^c   Manurung, Ruli ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF INDONESIA   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

Alternative and augmentative communication; Computational humor; Speech generation devices

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE AND AUGMENTATIVE COMMUNICATION; AUGMENTATIVE-AND-ALTERNATIVE COMMUNICATION; CEREBRAL PALSY; COMMUNICATION SKILLS; COMPUTATIONAL HUMOR; LANGUAGE IMPAIRMENTS; ONLINE DICTIONARIES; POSITIVE EFFECTS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; SPEECH GENERATION DEVICES;

LINGUISTICS; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 78049405436     PISSN: 19367228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1497302.1497306     Document Type: Article

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