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Communication board is a tool for aided Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) having large amount of pictures classified under different categories. It is a useful tool for disabled persons, who are suffering from speech and language impairment, to facilitate their communication by simply selecting pictures. In this paper, we present an online Web-browser‐based customizable communication board developed in HTML5. Currently, there are many Web browsers are HTML5 enabled, including on mobile platform. Using HTML5, the communication board would be able to run on different platforms, especially on mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets, without requiring any plug‐in. We performed user acceptance test on the application with domain experts and the overall comment is positive. In short, target users, e.g. disabled persons, can easily use the application for their communication. It also fits for rehabilitation trainings because the content and some settings of communication board can be customized that is relevant to target users’ local environment, e.g. the Hong Kong SAR in our case.
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Ho, T.T.W., Lam, T.H.W., Cheung, KH. (2013). Communication Board for Disabilities in HTML5. In: Imamura, K., Usui, S., Shirao, T., Kasamatsu, T., Schwabe, L., Zhong, N. (eds) Brain and Health Informatics. BHI 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8211. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02753-1_45
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