The Dundee AAC Research Group will be involved in two talks at the PITL conference:

Thursday, 15 June 2017, 11:45am, Room 1F01
“CamOnWheels”: Increasing narrative skills and participation for young people with complex communication needs
Mascha Legel, Annalu Waller (Abstract booklet)

Thursday, 15 June 2017, 2:30pm, Room 1F06
Empowering Disabled Educators
Annalu Waller, Kathleen Cummins, Alan McGregor (Abstract booklet)

From the PITL website:

“Organised by PAMIS and the Research Centre for Transformative Change: Educational & Life Transitions, which is part of the University of Dundee, the first PITL (Promoting Inclusion, Transforming Lives) International Conference in June 2017 will attract more than 200 national and international delegates to Dundee and Angus for a 2 day conference.

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At least two fully funded MSc in AAC places available for the academic year 2017/8 through the Scottish Funding Council (SFC).

The funding is currently advertised on the following website: https://www.dundee.ac.uk/study/pg/scholarships-fees/sfc-funding-programmes/.

If you have any queries, please get in touch with Prof Annalu Waller, email: a.waller@dundee.ac.uk.

The Brian Cox Prize Excellence in Public Engagement Project of the Year was awarded to Outer Space | Inner Space. The project is an interdisciplinary project between Centre for Gene Regulation & Expression (GRE), Computing in the School of Science and Engineering and Leisure & Culture Dundee aimed at ensuring accessibility for all. Recent installations include Ways of Vision, A Very Fishy Tale, Build a ‘Scope – Look Near and Far and The Giant Worm.

Valerie Bentivegna and Rolf Black, members of the Outer Space | Inner Space project team, were both highly commended for the Engaged Researcher of the Year award.

The Outer Space | Inner Space project, a collaboration between the University of Dundee and Leisure and Culture Dundee, has taken off to a new dimension. A local special school for children with multiple disabilities visited recently for a multi sensory trip to the stars!

The new immersive screen was filled with images and videos about everything you need from space boots to meteorite clusters. Access via switch allowed for our young space pioneers to keep control and everyone arrived safe back on earth!

Prof Annalu Waller OBE is featured in the top 100 list of people who affect life in the “Courier Country”.

A new interactive project demonstrating how the ‘C. elegans’, a minuscule worm that lives in your compost, helps world-leading research carried out at the University of Dundee will go on display at Mills Observatory this weekend.

A massive interactive video wall will allow visitors to get up close and personal with the inner world of the 1mm long roundworm, which is widely used in experiments including those by NASA and other space agencies to test the effects of space on aging and weightlessness.

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“THE UNIVERSITY IS ONE OF THE WORLD’S LEADING CENTRES FOR RESEARCH INTO AUGMENTATIVE AND ALTERNATIVE COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR PEOPLE WITH SEVERE COMMUNICATION DIFFICULTIES, HELPING GIVE THEM A VOICE.”

Read the full story in the latest issue of the CONTACT Magazine.

More issues on the CONTACT page at the University of Dundee’s Press Office.

A great evening at the Queen Mother Building for our event that was part of the Dundee Science Festival 2016:

Our researchers explore where technology delivers social and healthcare benefits for older and disabled people. In repeated short lectures and showing interactive displays visitors were able to engage with projects about how older people can use computers, people control computers with their eyes, computers can be used to view colours in a different way – and much more.

Try this with your eyes! @DundeeAAC @DundeeSciFest @UoDComputing Tonight 6-9pm. https://t.co/ARBxfagLV3 pic.twitter.com/JFx8SDPe1F

— Dundee AAC Research (@DundeeAAC) November 10, 2016

Computing’s Tap and Talk Aphasia iPad Group proudly presented their work at today’s premier of the shorts: “I have Aphasia” and “Aphasia in our own words”.

The short animation videos were created by the group during the last 10 weeks during an animation workshop funded by the NHS Tayside Healthcare Arts Trust THAT with the help of artist and film animator Andrew Low.

A documentary, Aphasia – Telling our Stories, filmed by Steve Soave informs about the background and life behind the scenes of this exiting project. More information on the groups webpage: aac.dundee.ac.uk/tap-and-talk

The pioneering User Centre at the University of Dundee celebrates a decade of bringing the benefits of modern technology to the elderly and adults with severe communication disabilities.

The User Centre, based in the Queen Mother Building, commemorates its first ten years of innovative research with the unveiling of a plaque in memory of John Gibson, first chair and founding member of the Centre who passed away last year.

The event coincides with the announcement of Hollywood actor Brian Cox as the Centre’s first Patron.

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