Baby-Babble-Blanket: infant interface with automatic data collection
| Autor: | Dana Moscoe, Harriet J. Fell, Zehra Mooraj, Linda J. Ferrier, Heriklia Delta |
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| Rok vydání: | 1996 |
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| Zdroj: | Augmentative and Alternative Communication. 12:110-121 |
| ISSN: | 1477-3848 0743-4618 |
| Popis: | The Baby-Babble-Blanket (BBB), a pad with pressure-sensitive switches linked to a Macintosh computer, was developed to provide infants or developmentally delayed children with a communication/environmental control system. Lying on the pad, infants use early movements, such as head rolling or leg raising, to produce digitized sound. The BBB software automatically collects data on the overall number of switch activations and on particular switches in a variety of conditions and graphs them. Possible important uses of the BBB are to train cause-effect skills, to increase the overall amount of movement, or to encourage particular movements. Preliminary data were collected on a 5-month-old infant with club feet, hydrocephaly, and poor muscle tone to determine what movements the infant could use to access the pad, and whether the use of particular body parts could be increased by the ability to access the digitized mother's voice. Results suggest that the infant could activate the device by two different moveme... |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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