Key-to-Voice App: A Simple Speech-Generating Device Suitable (not only) for a Hospital Environment

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F49777513%3A23640%2F19%3A43958782" target="_blank" >RIV/49777513:23640/19:43958782 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://content.iospress.com/articles/technology-and-disability/tad180199" target="_blank" >https://content.iospress.com/articles/technology-and-disability/tad180199</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/TAD-180199" target="_blank" >10.3233/TAD-180199</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Key-to-Voice App: A Simple Speech-Generating Device Suitable (not only) for a Hospital Environment

Original language description

BACKGROUND: In this article, we will present Key-to-Voice, a software design that we developed in collaboration with people who have complex communication needs and respective research that we conducted during the collaboration. The design is the first of its kind and there has not been any similar research linked to testing the design in the Czech Republic. OBJECTIVE: Our original intention was to develop a device that could give a voice to people with severe health problems and enable them to verbalise their thoughts after medical treatment in hospital. METHODS: Participatory design was used throughout the development and we employed participatory observation, informal interviews and simple questionnaire for the research of the possibilities of the design implementation in a hospital environment. RESULTS: Target group accepted the design we developed without any major problems and, at the same time, the design, and its possibilities of implementation and usage, was improved by participation of people who will be potentially using it. Given that our target group consists mainly of older adults with some kind of complex communication need, possibly acquired disability, we had to consider these aspects during development, as there is, for example, a problem in that older adults can have difficultyusing technologies. CONCLUSION: Our design is usable in a hospital environment without any major problems. Participatory design is a very effective approach for making any design better and more usable by a target group, and for minimising bias, stigmatization and exclusion.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50403 - Social topics (Women´s and gender studies; Social issues; Family studies; Social work)

Project

<a href="/en/project/7F14236" target="_blank" >7F14236: Naturalness in Human Cognitive Enhancement</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Technology and Disability

ISSN

1055-4181

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

31

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

169-181

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85077468130