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@article{citeulike:2902830, abstract = {In this article, Clark's theory of language use is applied to the study of conversations of augmented speakers and their addressees. Discussion focuses on how shared meaning--called common ground--is achieved, the process of grounding utterances under real-time constraints, and how the media characteristics of devices affect the grounding process. A joint action analysis of grounding will be applied to examples of word-board and Voice Output Communication Aid (VOCA)-mediated conversations to show how participants organize their talk around specific media constraints to conduct their conversations and solve communication problems. The authors argue that this model of device-mediated communication performance, or some variety of it, has the potential to reconcile many of the individual research findings in this field within a single explanatory framework. If successful, this approach could be used to evaluate future research with an empirically-based model of communication performance.}, address = {Communication and Assistive Device Laboratory, Department of Communicative Disorders and Sciences, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, USA.}, author = {Higginbotham, D. J. and Caves, K.}, citeulike-article-id = {2902830}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12739849}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=12739849}, issn = {1040-0435}, journal = {Assistive technology : the official journal of RESNA}, keywords = {aac, conversation, have-hard-copy}, number = {1}, pages = {45--57}, posted-at = {2008-06-17 17:36:09}, priority = {4}, title = {AAC performance and usability issues: the effect of AAC technology on the communicative process.}, url = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12739849}, volume = {14}, year = {2002} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2902830 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2902830 N2 - In this article, Clark's theory of language use is applied to the study of conversations of augmented speakers and their addressees. Discussion focuses on how shared meaning--called common ground--is achieved, the process of grounding utterances under real-time constraints, and how the media characteristics of devices affect the grounding process. A joint action analysis of grounding will be applied to examples of word-board and Voice Output Communication Aid (VOCA)-mediated conversations to show how participants organize their talk around specific media constraints to conduct their conversations and solve communication problems. The authors argue that this model of device-mediated communication performance, or some variety of it, has the potential to reconcile many of the individual research findings in this field within a single explanatory framework. If successful, this approach could be used to evaluate future research with an empirically-based model of communication performance. IS - 1 JF - Assistive technology : the official journal of RESNA SN - 1040-0435 AD - Communication and Assistive Device Laboratory, Department of Communicative Disorders and Sciences, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, USA. EP - 57 TI - AAC performance and usability issues: the effect of AAC technology on the communicative process. VL - 14 SP - 45 KW - aac KW - conversation KW - have-hard-copy AU - Higginbotham, DJ AU - Caves, K PY - 2002/// UR - http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12739849 ER -