“This new center is really amazing in what it can accomplish for families living with ASD and researchers, clinicians and educators working in this area,” Gillian Hayes, the director of technology research for the center, said. “This is one of only a handful of places that supports integrated care across a variety of disorders from birth through adulthood.”
Full article: http://www.newuniversity.org/2013/01/news/centered-around-autism/
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| Posted: 1/30/13 9:46 pm UTC by admin Make the First Comment | |
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Informatics faculty member Gillian Hayes and collaborators just received a SIGACCESS best paper award for a paper published in ASSETS 2010, the International ACM Conference on Conference on Computers and Accessibility, going on in Orlando, Florida. Their paper, “Disability Studies as a Source of Critical Inquiry for the Field of Assistive Technology” comes out of the research they’ve been doing on HCI for individuals with disabilities.
Abstract:
Disability studies and assistive technology are two related fields that have long shared common goals–understanding the experience of disability and identifying and addressing relevant issues. Despite these common goals, there are some important differences in what professionals in these fields consider problems, perhaps related to the lack of connection between the fields. To help bridge this gap, we review some of the key literature in disability studies. We present case studies of two research projects in assistive technology and discuss how the field of disability studies influenced that work, led us to identify new or different problems relevant to the field of assistive technology, and helped us to think in new ways about the research process and its impact on the experiences of individuals who live with disability. We also discuss how the field of disability studies has influenced our teaching and highlight some of the key publications and publication venues from which our community may want to draw more deeply in the future.
Congratulations Gillian!
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Tags: autism, award, children with autism, Devva Kasnitz, education, Gillian R. Hayes, HCI, Jennifer Mankoff, paper published |
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| Posted: 10/28/10 12:57 am UTC by djp3 Make the First Comment | |
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Promo video that was filmed based on Gillian’s work:
“UC Irvine informatics assistant professor Gillian Hayes designs computer devices to aid instruction, record-keeping. Video courtesy of Information and Computer Sciences, UC Irvine.
More here“
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Tags: autism, children, children with autism, education, Gillian R. Hayes, interactive visualization, Michael Yeganyan, mobile app, pervasive computing, visualization |
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| Posted: 10/27/10 5:35 pm UTC by djp3 Make the First Comment | |
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Congratulations to Informatics faculty member Gillian Hayes and Informatics grad students Sen Hirano, Gabriela Marcu, Mohamad Monibi, David H. Nguyen, and Michael Yeganyan on having their paper, ‘Interactive Visual Supports for Children with Autism‘ accepted to Personal and Ubiquitous Computing Journal.
“Interventions to support children with autism often include the use of visual supports, which are cognitive tools to enable learning and the production of language. Although visual supports are effective in helping to diminish many of the challenges of autism, they are difficult and time-consuming to create, distribute, and use. In this paper, we present the results of a qualitative study focused on uncovering design guidelines for interactive visual supports that would address the many challenges inherent to current tools and practices. We present three prototype systems that address these design challenges with the use of large group displays, mobile personal devices, and personal recording technologies. We also describe the interventions associated with these prototypes along with the results from two focus group discussions around the interventions. We present further design guidance for visual supports and discuss tensions inherent to their design.”
Get a copy of this paper here: http://www.springerlink.com/content/106503/
Congratulations Gillian, Sen, Gabriela, Mo, David and Michael!
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| Posted: 5/27/10 6:00 am UTC by djp3 Add Your Comment | |
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Children with special needs often struggle to understand and communicate basic thoughts and concepts. Augmentative visual communication tools used in special education classrooms can help children make choices and express themselves, to help them understand time and perform certain activities. Mocotos are mobile devices that support non-verbal children in visual communication interventions. By providing flexible programming options based on a library of digital picture cards, the use of Mocotos can range between highly structured communication to unstructured spontaneous utterances. Nomatic*VS is a large-screen, technology-enhanced visual schedules system which prompts teachers to update the schedule when appropriate, removes physical difficulties in its modification, and collects data for reference.
Sam Kaufman (kaufmans@uci.edu)
Mohamad Monibi (mmonibi@ics.uci.edu)
Gillian Hayes (gillianrh@ics.uci.edu)
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| Posted: 4/11/08 10:48 am UTC by djp3 Make the First Comment | |
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Congratulations to undergraduate student Sam Kaufman, and professors Don Patterson and Gillian Hayes, on being invited to present at the 2008 International Meeting for Autism Research:
S. J. Kaufman, D. J. Patterson and G. R. Hayes. “Design of Interactive Visual Scheduling Systems.” International Meeting for Autism Research. London, UK. May 2008.
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| Posted: 2/27/08 4:18 pm UTC by djp3 Make the First Comment | |
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“Professor of informatics Gillian Hayes has received an award from Autism Speaks for her proposal, “Technology Support for Interactive and Collaborative Visual Schedules”.
Hayes work will focus on developing a digital repository and visual schedule system for use in schools and homes by individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).”
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| Posted: 1/21/08 9:46 am UTC by djp3 Make the First Comment | |
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