Design guidelines for hands-free speech interaction

Title: Design guidelines for hands-free speech interaction
Authors: Christine Murad, Cosmin Munteanu, Leigh Clark, Benjamin R. Cowan
Date: September 2018
Event: MobileHCI ’18

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Enhancing Social Connectedness Amongst Institutionalized Older Adults

TITLE: Can digital technology enhance social connectedness amongst institutionalized older adults? Computer Science meets Sociology for an Action Research Project.
Authors: Barbara Barbosa Neves, Christian Beermann, Rebecca Judges, Nadia Nassar, and Ron Baecker.
Date: July 2016
Event: Proceedings to appear at the Third ISA Forum of Sociology, held in Vienna, Austria.

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“My Hand Doesn’t Listen to Me!

Title: My hand doesn’t listen to me: Adoption and Evaluation of a Communication Technology for the “Oldest Old”
Authors: Bárbara Barbosa Neves, Rachel Franz, Cosmin Munteanu, Ronald Baecker and Mags Ngo.
Date: April 18-23, 2015
Event: CHI 2015, ACM, Seoul, Korea.

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Technology to reduce social isolation and loneliness

Title: Technology to reduce social isolation and loneliness.
Authors: Ron Baecker, Kate Sellen, Sarah Crosskey, Veronique Boscart and Barbara Barbosa Neves
Date: October 2014
Event: In Proceedings of the 16th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers & accessibility (pp. 27-34) ACM.

Enabling Acquisition

Title: Interactive Event: Enabling Acquisition while Providing Mobile Communication Support
Authors: Carrie Demmans Epp, Stephen Tsourounis, Justin Djordjevic and Ronald M. Baecker
Date: 2013
Event:  Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED) 2013, Memphis, Tennessee, United States.

 

Mobile Adaptive Communication Support

Title: Mobile Adaptive Communication Support for Vocabulary Acquisition
Author: Carrie Demmans Epp
Date: 2013
Event: Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED). Memphis, Tennessee, United States

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Especially Social

Title: Especially social: Exploring the use of an IOS application in special needs classrooms
Authors: Rachelle Campigotto, Rhonda McEwen, Carrie Demmans Epp
Date: 2013
Publication: Computers & Education, Volume 60, Issue 1, January 2013, Pages 74-86, ISSN 0360-1315, 10.1016/j.compedu.2012.08.002

Employing Adaptive Mobile Phone Applications (Poster)

Title: Employing Adaptive Mobile Phone Applications for Scaffolding the Communication and Vocabulary Acquisition of Language Learners
Authors: Carrie Demmans Epp and Ronald M. Baecker
Date: 2012
Event: LearnLab’s Learning Science Workshop on the Use of Technology Toward Enhancing Achievement and Equity in the 21st Century, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

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Employing Adaptive Mobile Phone Applications

Title: Employing Adaptive Mobile Phone Applications for Scaffolding the Communication and Vocabulary Acquisition of Language Learners
Authors: Carrie Demmans Epp and Ronald M. Baecker
Date: 2012
Event: LearnLab’s Learning Science Workshop on the Use of Technology Toward Enhancing Achievement and Equity in the 21st Century, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

 

VocabNomad: An Adaptive Mobile Learning Language Tool

Title: VocabNomad: an Adaptive Mobile Language Learning Tool
Authors: Naomi Cui, Amirreza Abdolmaleki, Carrie Demmans Epp and Ronald M. Baecker
Date: 2012
Event: University of Toronto Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program Poster Fair

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Reconstructing the Past

Title: Reconstructing the Past: Personal Memory Technologies Are Not Just Personal and Not Just for Memory
Authors: Masashi Crete-Nishihata, Ronald M. Baecker, Michael Massimi, Deborah Ptak, Rachelle Campigotto, Liam D. Kaufman, Adam M. Brickman, Gary R. Turner, Joshua R. Steinerman and Sandra E. Black
Date: 2012
Publication: Human-Computer Interaction, 27:1-2, 92-123.

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VocabNomad: A Context-Sensitive Application

Title: VocabNomad: a Context-Sensitive Application for Mobile Assisted Language Learning
Authors: Carrie Demmans Epp and Ronald M. Baecker
Date: 2011
Event: Young Researcher’s Track Poster at Artificial Intelligence in Education. Auckland, New Zealand.

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Understanding and Reducing Isolation due to Chronic Pain

Title: Understanding and Reducing Isolation due to Chronic Pain
Authors: A. Benjamin,  Jessica David, Ronald M. Baecker, D. Gromala, Jeremy Birnholtz, A. Furlan, Veronique Boscart,
Date: 2011
Event: FICCDAT Toronto, Ontario, June 5-8, 2011.

MarcoPolo: Context-Sensitive Mobile Communication Support

Title: MarcoPolo:Context Sensitive Mobile Communication Support
Authors: Carrie Demmans Epp, Rachelle Campigotto, Alexander Levy, Ron Baecker
Date: 2011
Event: FICCDAT: RESNA/ICTA 2011, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Matters of Life and Death

Title: Matters of life and death: Locating the end of life in lifespan-oriented HCI research
Authors: Massimi, M., Odom, W., Banks, R., and Kirk, D.
Date: 2009
Event: CHI 2011, 987-996

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Dealing With Death in Design

Title: Dealing with death in design: Developing systems for the bereaved
Authors: Massimi, M., and Baecker, R.
Date: 2011
Event: CHI 2011, 1001-1010

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Living with Pain, Staying in Touch

Title: Living with Pain, Staying in Touch: Exploring the Communication Needs of Older Adults with Chronic Pain
Authors: J. David, A. Benjamin, Ronald M. Baecker, D. Gromala, Jeremy Birnholtz
Date: 2011
Event: In Proceedings of the 2011 annual conference extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems (CHI EA ’11). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1219-1224.

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A Death in the Family

Title: A Death in the Family: Opportunities for designing technologies for the bereaved
Authors: Massimi, M., and Baecker, R.
Date: 2010
Event: CHI 2010, 1821-1830 (Best paper award nomination)

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Assessing the Cognitive

Title: Assessing the Cognitive and Psychosocial Impact of Two SenseCam Media Formats on Persons with MCI and Mild AD
Authors: Baecker, R.M., Crete-Nishihata, M., Ptak, D., Brickman, A., Turner, G., Black, S.E., and Steinerman, J.
Date: 2009
Event: SenseCam 2009: Clinical and Technical Advances and the Future of SenseCam Research, October 2009.

 

Cell Phone Software to Aid Senior Citizens

Title: Cell Phone Software to Aid Senior Citizens in Recalling Names
Authors: Baecker, R.M., Fenwick, K., Massimi, M., Black, S., Rochon, E., and Ryan, D.
Date: July, 2009
Event: XIXth IAGG World Congress of Gerontology and Geriatrics

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The Psychosocial Impacts of Multimedia Biographies

Title: The Psychosocial Impacts of Multimedia Biographies on Persons with Cognitive Impairments
Authors: T. Damiankis, M. Crete-Nishihata, K.L. Smith, R.M. Baecker and E. Marziali
Date: July 10, 2009
Publication: The Gerongologist

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Dying, Death, and Mortality

Title: Dying, death, and mortality: Towards Thanatosensitivity in HCI
Authors: Massimi, M., and Charise, A.
Date: 2009
Event: CHI 2009, Extended Abstracts, 2459-2468

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Cell Phone Software Aiding Name Recall

Title: Cell Phone Software Aiding Name Recall
Authors: Fenwick, K., Massimi, M., Baecker, R.M., Black, S., Tonon, K., Munteanu, C., Rochon, E., and Ryan, D.
Date: 2009
Event: ACM CHI 2009, 4279-4284

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Multimedia Biographies

Title: Multimedia Biographies: A Reminiscence and Social Stimulus Tool for Persons with Cognitive Impairment
Authors: Smith, K.L., Crete-Nishihata, M., Damianakis, T., Baecker, R.M., and Marziali, E.
Date: 2009
Publication: Journal of Technology in Human Services, 27, 287-306.

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An Exploratory Case Study

Title: An Exploratory Case Study of the Impact of Ambient Biographical Displays on Identity in a Patient with Alzheimer’s Disease
Authors: Massimi, J., Berry, E., Browne, G., Smyth, G., Watson, P., and Baecker, R.M.
Date: 2008
Publication: Neuropsychological Rehabilitation 18(5-6), 742-765.

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Collaborating to Remember

Title: Collaborating to Remember: A Distributed Cognition Account of Families Coping with Memory Impairments
Authors: Wu, M., Birnholtz, J., Baecker, R.M., Richards, B., and Massimi, M.
Date: 2008
Event: ACM SIGCHI 2008, 825-834

An Empirical Study of Seniors Perceptions

Title: An Empirical Study of Seniors’ Perceptions of Mobile Phones as Memory Aids
Authors: Mihailidis, A., Boger, J., Kautz, H., and Normie, L.
Date: 2008
Publication: Technology and Aging, IOS Press, 59-66

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Using Participatory Activities with Seniors

Title: Using Participatory Activities with Seniors to Critique, Build, and Evaluate Mobile Phones
Authors: Massimi, M., Baecker, R.M., and Wu, M.
Date: 2007
Event: Ninth International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, Tempe Arizona, Oct. 2007, 155-162

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Participatory Design of an Orientation Aid for Amnesics

Title: Participatory Design of an Orientation Aid for Amnesics
Authors: Wu, M., Baecker, R.M., and Richards, B.
Date: 2005
Event: ACM SIGCHI 2005, April 2-7, 2005, Portland, OR. (Best Paper Nomination)

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Participatory Design with Individuals Who Have Amnesia

Title: Participatory Design with Individuals Who Have Amnesia
Authors: Wu, M., Richards, B., and Baecker, R.M.
Date: 2004
Event: PDC 2004, 2014-223

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