The purpose of this study, which is part of the ARC project “A Pictorial Communication Framework for Inclusion“, is to explore the design of applications that would allow people to easily access images and use them as they see fit, for example, to place them in any arrangement on a digital canvas
Through this study, we also seek to understand which types of pictures should be offered, for example, emojis, photographs, or a combination, as well as a variety of arrangements for images to be explored (in categories, or on a grid).
We observe how using the pictures may become a tool for self-expressing, or conducting a conversation, for people with intellectual disability who wish to use images to communicate.
Team
- Alieh Hajizadeh Saffar (PhD Student)
- Maja Hjuler (PhD student)
- Filip Bircanin (Adjunct)
- Nicholas Roberson
- Sirin Roomkham
- Maria Hoogstrate
- Ahmed Abbas
- Benoit Favre
Publications
Bircanin, Filip, Sitbon, Laurianne, Hoogstrate, Maria, Abbas, Ahmed K., Hajizadeh Saffar, Alieh, & Brereton, Margot (2025) Beyond the Buckets of Support: Designing for Agency and Interaction in Personalised Disability Systems. In Yamashita, Naomi, Evers, Vanessa, Yatani, Koji, Ding, Xianghua (Sharon), Lee, Bongshin, Chetty, Marshini, et al. (Eds.) CHI ’25: Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), United States of America.
Hajizadeh Saffar, Alieh, Sitbon, Laurianne, & Beaumont, Chris P. (2025) Communication with Individuals with Intellectual Disability Using Generic Images: Exploring Contexts, Requirements, Opportunities, and Challenges. In Yamashita, Naomi, Evers, Vanessa, Yatani, Koji, & Ding, Xianghua (Sharon) (Eds.) CHI EA ’25: Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), United States of America.
Hajizadeh Saffar, Alieh, Sitbon, Laurianne, Hoogstrate, Maria, Abbas, Ahmed, Roomkham, Sirinthip, & Miller, Dimity (2024) Human and Large Language Model Intent Detection in Image-Based Self-Expression of People with Intellectual Disability. In Clough, Paul, Harvey, Morgan, & Hopfgartner, Frank (Eds.) CHIIR 2024 – Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York, NY, pp. 199-208.
Sitbon, Laurianne, Brereton, Margot, & Bircanin, Filip (2024) Reframing search and recommendation as opportunities for communication for people with intellectual disability. Human-Computer Interaction, 39(3-4), pp. 206-224.