AACessTalk: Fostering Communication between Minimally Verbal Autistic Children and Parents with Contextual Guidance and Card Recommendation

要旨

As minimally verbal autistic (MVA) children communicate with parents through few words and nonverbal cues, parents often struggle to encourage their children to express subtle emotions and needs and to grasp their nuanced signals. We present AACessTalk, a tablet-based, AI-mediated communication system that facilitates meaningful exchanges between an MVA child and a parent. AACessTalk provides real-time guides to the parent to engage the child in conversation and, in turn, recommends contextual vocabulary cards to the child. Through a two-week deployment study with 11 MVA child-parent dyads, we examine how AACessTalk fosters everyday conversation practice and mutual engagement. Our findings show high engagement from all dyads, leading to increased frequency of conversation and turn-taking. AACessTalk also encouraged parents to explore their own interaction strategies and empowered the children to have more agency in communication. We discuss the implications of designing technologies for balanced communication dynamics in parent-MVA child interaction.

受賞
Best Paper
著者
Dasom Choi
KAIST, Dajeon, Korea, Republic of
SoHyun Park
NAVER Cloud, Seongnam, Korea, Republic of
Kyungah Lee
Daegu University, Daegu, Korea, Republic of
Hwajung Hong
KAIST, Deajeon, Korea, Republic of
Young-Ho Kim
NAVER AI Lab, Seongnam, Gyeonggi, Korea, Republic of
DOI

10.1145/3706598.3713792

論文URL

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3706598.3713792

動画

会議: CHI 2025

The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (https://chi2025.acm.org/)

セッション: Communication and Support

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2025-05-01 18:00:00
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