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Using AAC VSDs to increase participation and communication for adolescents with CCN (Babb et al., 2020)
Babb et al. (2020) investigated the use of video VSDs to support participation during a volunteer activity for adolescents with CCN.
Information Theoretic Feature Transformation Learning for Brain Interfaces (Özdenizci & Erdoğmuş, 2019)
Özdenizci & Erdoğmuş (2019) address potential confounders caused by heuristic feature ranking and selection based dimensionality reduction methods that are widely used for brain interfaces and extend this focus with a novel information theoretic feature transformation concept.
“Building capacity in AAC” the most frequently downloaded paper in 2019!
McNaughton et al. (2019) article was the most frequently downloaded paper in the AAC journal in 2019.
RERC on AAC at ATIA 2020
RERC on AAC to present at the ATIA 2019 Conference in Orlando, FL.
New and FREE online resource: Thinking about Thinking for AAC (TAT4AAC)
The TAT4AAC is a new resource to help us better understand the cognitive demands of various AAC technologies.
Trends in BCI research participant categories and descriptions in abstracts (Eddy et al., 2019)
Eddy and colleagues examined trends in inclusion and description of study participants with disabilities across six International BCI Meetings from 1999 to 2016.
Visual attention to AAC VSDs in individuals with and without developmental disabilities (O’Neill et al., 2019)
O’Neill et al. investigated visual attention to complex AAC VSDs by participants with and without developmental disabilities.
Special Issue on AAC State of the Science – Update
The five papers from the State of the Science Conference have received over 25,000 downloads since they were published in a special issue of the AAC journal.
2019 Doctoral Student Research Think Tank
The 2019 Doctoral Student AAC Research Think Tank was held on the University Park campus of Penn State University from May 19 – May 21, 2019.