The application of spatialization and spatial metaphor to augmentative and alternative communication

  • Authors:
  • P. Demasco;A. F. Newell;J. L. Arnott

  • Affiliations:
  • ASEL, University of Delaware/Al duPont Institute, Wilmington, DE;MicroCentre, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland DD1 4HN;MicroCentre, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland DD1 4HN

  • Venue:
  • Assets '94 Proceedings of the first annual ACM conference on Assistive technologies
  • Year:
  • 1994

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Abstract

The University of Delaware and the University of Dundee are collaborating on a project that is investigating the application of spatialization and spatial metaphors to interfaces for Augmentative and Alternative Communication. This paper outlines the project's motivation, goals, and methodological considerations. It presents a number of design principles obtained from a review of the HCI literature. Finally, it describes progress on the demonstration of this approach. This application called VAL provides a computer-based word board that retains spatial equivalence to the user's paper-based system. It also allows the user to access an extended lexicon through an interface to the WordNet lexical database.