TY - GEN
T1 - Detecting linguistic HCI markers in an online aphasia support group
AU - Kalman, Yoram M.
AU - Geraghty, Kathleen
AU - Thompson, Cynthia K.
AU - Gergle, Darren
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2012 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Aphasia is an acquired language disorder resulting from trauma or injury to language areas of the brain. Despite extensive research on the impact of aphasia on traditional forms of communication, little is known about the impact of aphasia on computer-mediated communication CMC). In this study we asked whether the well-documented language deficits associated with aphasia can be detected in online writing of people with aphasia. We analyzed 150 messages 14,754 wordsposted to an online aphasia support forum, by six people with aphasia and by four controls. Significant linguistic differences between people with aphasia and controls were detected, suggesting five putative linguistic HCI markers for aphasia. These findings suggest that interdisciplinary research on communication disorders and CMC has both applied and theoretical implications.
AB - Aphasia is an acquired language disorder resulting from trauma or injury to language areas of the brain. Despite extensive research on the impact of aphasia on traditional forms of communication, little is known about the impact of aphasia on computer-mediated communication CMC). In this study we asked whether the well-documented language deficits associated with aphasia can be detected in online writing of people with aphasia. We analyzed 150 messages 14,754 wordsposted to an online aphasia support forum, by six people with aphasia and by four controls. Significant linguistic differences between people with aphasia and controls were detected, suggesting five putative linguistic HCI markers for aphasia. These findings suggest that interdisciplinary research on communication disorders and CMC has both applied and theoretical implications.
KW - Aphasia
KW - Computer-mediated communication
KW - HCI markers
KW - Human factors
KW - Online support groups
KW - Unobtrusive monitoring
KW - User modeling
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84869775052&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/2384916.2384928
DO - 10.1145/2384916.2384928
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AN - SCOPUS:84869775052
SN - 9781450313216
T3 - ASSETS'12 - Proceedings of the 14th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility
SP - 65
EP - 70
BT - ASSETS'12 - Proceedings of the 14th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility
T2 - 14th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, ASSETS 2012
Y2 - 22 October 2012 through 24 October 2012
ER -