TalkingBoogie: Collaborative Mobile AAC System for Non-verbal Children with Developmental Disabilities and Their Caregivers

Donghoon Shin; Jaeyoon Song; Seokwoo Song; Jisoo Park; Joonhwan Lee; Soojin Jun

doi:10.1145/3313831.3376154

TalkingBoogie: Collaborative Mobile AAC System for Non-verbal Children with Developmental Disabilities and Their Caregivers

Donghoon Shin, Jaeyoon Song, Seokwoo Song, Jisoo Park, Joonhwan Lee, Soojin Jun

Graduate School of Communication and Arts

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Abstract

Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) technologies are widely used to help non-verbal children enable communication. For AAC-aided communication to be successful, caregivers should support children with consistent intervention strategies in various settings. As such, caregivers need to continuously observe and discuss children's AAC usage to create a shared understanding of these strategies. However, caregivers often find it challenging to effectively collaborate with one another due to a lack of family involvement and the unstructured process of collaboration. To address these issues, we present TalkingBoogie, which consists of two mobile apps: TalkingBoogie-AAC for caregiver-child communication, and TalkingBoogie-coach supporting caregiver collaboration. Working together, these applications provide contextualized layouts for symbol arrangement, scaffold the process of sharing and discussing observations, and induce caregivers' balanced participation. A two-week deployment study with four groups (N=11) found that TalkingBoogie helped increase mutual understanding of strategies and encourage balanced participation between caregivers with reduced cognitive loads.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450367080
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376154
Publication status	Published - 2020 Apr 21
Event	2020 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2020 - Honolulu, United States Duration: 2020 Apr 25 → 2020 Apr 30

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Name	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

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Conference	2020 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2020
Country/Territory	United States
City	Honolulu
Period	20/4/25 → 20/4/30

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
We would like to thank Joowon Lee for participating in the initial design phase. This work was supported by SNU Undergraduate Research Program through the Faculty of Liberal Education, Seoul National University (2019-23) and the National Research Foundation of Korea Grant funded by the Korean Government (NRF-2019S1A5A2A01045980).

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© 2020 ACM.

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Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
Human-Computer Interaction
Software

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Shin, D., Song, J., Song, S., Park, J., Lee, J., & Jun, S. (2020). TalkingBoogie: Collaborative Mobile AAC System for Non-verbal Children with Developmental Disabilities and Their Caregivers. In CHI 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems [3376154] (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376154

Shin, Donghoon ; Song, Jaeyoon ; Song, Seokwoo et al. / TalkingBoogie : Collaborative Mobile AAC System for Non-verbal Children with Developmental Disabilities and Their Caregivers. CHI 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, 2020. (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings).

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Shin D, Song J, Song S, Park J, Lee J, Jun S. TalkingBoogie: Collaborative Mobile AAC System for Non-verbal Children with Developmental Disabilities and Their Caregivers. In CHI 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery. 2020. 3376154. (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings). doi: 10.1145/3313831.3376154

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