MARCOPOLO: CONTEXT-SENSITIVE MOBILE COMMUNICATION SUPPORT

People with Autism Spectrum Disorder and aphasia often have impairments that limit their ability to communicate verbally. Consequently, their daily activities, social interactions, and quality of life are affected. We have developed a customizable context-sensitive application, MarcoPolo, that can help these populations overcome challenges by providing vocabulary support both orally and visually. Initial evaluations of MarcoPolo have helped refine the application and have illustrated that contextsensitive mobile applications can support communication. Several additional studies will be run to further evaluate the efficacy of context-sensitive communication support. Two of these will start in 2011 and early results will be presented at FICCDAT.