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Dr Tom Griffiths
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Lecturer in Assistive Technology, University of Dundee. PhD in #eyegaze & cerebral palsy. Registered Clinical Scientist. Clinical & research background in #AAC #AugComm #AssistiveTech #A11y. Professional account, my views.
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Excited to share our team's new report from @dundee.ac.uk, funded by DfE UK: "Developing a competency framework for effective assistive technology training"

www.gov.uk/government/p...

The report explores skills & knowledge of staff in special schools and colleges to support digital #AssistiveTech
Developing a competency framework for effective assistive technology training
Examines the skills and knowledge needed by staff in special schools and colleges to use digital assistive technology effectively.
www.gov.uk
May 8, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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[1/5] Happy to share our latest #eyegaze #eyetracking research paper, in which we compare computer and object-based approaches to observing fixation and gaze switching in children with #cerebralpalsy. It's #openaccess from @mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social here: www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/14...
A banner for a paper from the Journal of Clinical Medicine. The paper title is "Assessment of Gaze Fixations and Shifts in Children with Cerebral Palsy: A Comparison of Computer- and Object-Based Approaches" and the authors' names (Tom Griffiths; Michael T. Clarke; John Swettenham) are displayed below this, with the journal volume (14), issue number (7) and article number (2326). A QR code to link to the article is in the top right. All are set against a green and white background.
April 1, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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Choose 10 music books that have influenced you, changed your life or blown your mind. One book per day for 10 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers (WITH ALT TEXT).
#BookSky 💙📚
#MusicSky
#MusicBooks
#Books
#BookChallenge
2/10
The cover of the book "Mystery Train" by Greil Marcus. A grainy, black and white outline image of a guitar headstock on which the title and author's name are written. The neck of the guitar is styled as a railway track.
February 21, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Really enjoyed doing the #BookSky 💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge these past few weeks. Great way to reflect on books that have influenced me. So many to choose from and I didn't include any music books or bios, a particular favourite genre of mine... so... (drumroll 🥁)
February 20, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers (WITH ALT TEXT).
#BookSky 💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
20/20
The cover of the book "Testing Treatments: Better Research for Better Healthcare" by Imogen Evans, Hazel Thornton, Iain Chalmers and Paul Glasziou. The title is at the top, authors' names at the bottom and the image is a stylised set of scales (a rectangle balanced on a triangle) with a small yellow square on the left side and a large green one on the right. The scales are balanced.
February 18, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers (WITH ALT TEXT).
#BookSky 💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
19/20
The front cover of "Nineteen eighty-four" by George Orwell. The title and author's name are at the top and the main image resembles a tunnel, rendered in a lurid bright orange with a black and white close up of an eye at the end of it.
February 11, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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A fantastic opportunity for researchers in #aphasia, #speechtherapy, #HCI and related disciplines - come and share your research as part of an engaging programme at #BASConf25 in the fine city of #Dundee this summer!
abracabadger.com Dr Abi Roper @abracabadger.com · Feb 7
The #BASConf25 abstract submission portal is open!

Submit your abstracts for presentations, panels, lightning talks, or posters here:
blogs.city.ac.uk/bas2025/subm...

• Submission Deadline: 17 Mar 2025, 9AM UK
• Notification of Acceptance: 2 May 2025
• Conference: 18-20 August 2025

#aphasia
Submit an Abstract | British Aphasiology Society International Conference 2025
blogs.city.ac.uk
February 11, 2025 at 1:28 PM
tg-at.bsky.social
Really useful session today with @cos.io explaining the full #OSF workflow from searching and discovery through #research design, data archiving, analysis and (pre-)publishing. A really helpful refresher or intro for first time dabblers in #OpenScience - sign up at link below (sessions 4pm UK time)
cos.io Center for Open Science @cos.io · Jan 9
Join our monthly Getting Started on the OSF webinar every 2nd Monday at 11 AM ET!

Learn how OSF supports open science and streamlines research workflows

🌟 Highlights:
✔ Guided feature tour
✔ Use case exploration
✔ Live Q&A

🔗 Register: cos-io.zoom.us/webin...
February 10, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers (WITH ALT TEXT).
#BookSky 💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
18/20
The front cover of the comic book "Watchmen" by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. The cover is bright yellow with a black ellipse and a vivid splatter of red blood dripping down the centre. The title is vertically presented on the left side of the cover.
February 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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It is #SuperbowlLIX tonight. I know basically nothing about #NFL but I do recognise an opportunity to rewatch the single greatest 12 minutes of entertainment in the history of the world.
#Prince 💜

youtu.be/-WYYlRArn3g?...
Prince - Super Bowl XLI 🏈 | Halftime Show 2007 FULL SHOW HD
YouTube video by Music Entertainment
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February 9, 2025 at 8:31 PM
tg-at.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers (WITH ALT TEXT).
#BookSky 💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
17/20
The cover of the book "Mayflies" by Andrew O'Hagan. The title and author's name are overlaid on a black and white image of three young men looking happy, with arms around each other, seemingly at a concert or sporting event.
February 7, 2025 at 11:11 AM
tg-at.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers (WITH ALT TEXT).
#BookSky 💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
16/20
The cover of the book "Them - Adventures with Extremists" by Jon Ronson. A purple cover with green lines across it, creating slits through which eyes appear to be peeking.
February 4, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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Happy New Bonnie Prince Billy Day to all who celebrate… 💜🐦
The Purple Bird by Bonnie
Album · 2025 · 12 Songs
music.apple.com
January 31, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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Thoroughly dispiriting - 4/5 @theguardian.com #rugby writers have #Wales finishing last in this year's #6Nations and it's pretty hard to offer a decent argument against this. Sad state. Pob lwc in Paris tonight lads, but it's going to take a hell of shift... 🏉

www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...
Six Nations 2025 predictions: our writers on who will win and why
France’s Louis Bielle-Biarre may be widely tipped for the tournament’s scene stealer but there are plenty of other themes to light up this year’s edition
www.theguardian.com
January 31, 2025 at 9:28 AM
tg-at.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers (WITH ALT TEXT).
#BookSky 💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
15/20
The cover of the book "Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans" by Melanie Mitchell. Against a turquoise background is the title and author name at the top and a grid of coloured squares, each with a number. The squares cohere to look like a highly pixelated face of a person with long brown hair.
January 31, 2025 at 9:21 AM
tg-at.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers (WITH ALT TEXT).
#BookSky 💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
14/20
The cover of "The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 3/4" by Sue Townsend. The cover shows a coloured sketch of a mirror on which the title and author's name have been superimposed. In front of the mirror is a glass containing a Noddy toothbrush and a tube of toothpaste to the left and a straight razor and shaving soap brush to the right.
January 30, 2025 at 12:04 PM
tg-at.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers (WITH ALT TEXT).
#BookSky 💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
13/20
The cover of the book "Augmentative and Alternative Communication: Developmental Issues" edited by Stephen von Tetzchner and Nicola Grove. The cover is white with just the title at the bottom with a thick black line underneath and the editors' names at the top.
January 29, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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A PSA that I really wish was unnecessary:

Do not put personal or private data into *ANY* #genAI #AI system or #chatbot, irrespective of who owns it, because anything uploaded may be taken by said owners and used for training data (and a great many other things)

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Experts urge caution over use of Chinese AI DeepSeek
Oxford professor advises against putting private data on platform in case it could be shared with Chinese state
www.theguardian.com
January 28, 2025 at 2:39 PM
tg-at.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers (WITH ALT TEXT).
#BookSky 💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
12/20
The cover of the book "The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark" by Carl Sagan. The author's name is at the top, the title below it in an orange band, and the subtitle against a black background in the lower third. A picture of a candle flame in an orange circle is in the centre.
January 28, 2025 at 9:58 AM
tg-at.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers (WITH ALT TEXT).
#BookSky 💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
11/20
The cover of the fifth edition of the book "Assistive Technologies: Principles and Practice" by Albert M. Cook, Jan Miller Polgar and Pedro Encarnacao. A purple background has four pictures of people with disabilities using technology: two people looking at a smartphone, a person seated in a wheelchair, a person crossing the road using a long cane and a child in a wheelchair looking at a communication aid.
January 27, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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This is deeply problematic from @googlesearch.bsky.social AI Summary. Positioning #facilitatedcommunication on a par with other #AAC #AugComm approaches is factually wrong. Searched: "medicare aac". Reported. @bronwynhemsley.bsky.social @katharinebeals.bsky.social @fcisnotscience.bsky.social
A screengrab of an AI summary from a Google search page. The header reads "What is AAC?" and the body text reads "AAC is a way for people with disabilities to communicate. There are several types of AAC, including non-tech, aided low-tech, and aided high-tech. Facilitated communication (FC) is an AAC approach that uses writing, typing, gesturing, or pointing to help people express themselves." Below this is a statement reading "Generative Al is experimental." to the right is a link to "Autism Parenting Magazine" with the link text "Facilitated Communication for Children with Autism" and a short description "Facilitated communication (FC), is anaugmentative and alternative communicati..." Autism Parenting Magazine ..."
January 27, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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Despite the dreadful weather it’s impossible not to love the #Southbank Centre and its wonderful public art and sculpture… #london @southbanklondon.bsky.social
A light sculpture resembling an ornate gate or door made of thousands of small lights. At the top is a banner reading “I contain multitudes” and on the main portal of the gate is spelled out “We rise lifting others” in red lights which resemble graffiti. Some people are silhouetted in the foreground and the lights are reflecting off the wet paving.
January 26, 2025 at 8:13 PM
tg-at.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers (WITH ALT TEXT).
#BookSky 💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
10/20
The front cover of Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne. A yellow background with a picture of Pooh and Piglet walking past some trees, leaving footprints in the snow.
January 25, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Reposted by Dr Tom Griffiths
mmatp.com
New Chrome #A11Y feature. READ: How we built Face control to help Chromebooks be more accessible @google blog.google/outreach-ini... #ATchat #ATIA2025 #ATIA25
How we built Face control to help Chromebooks be more accessible
Face control on Chromebooks uses facial gestures and machine learning to let people with motor impairments control their devices.
blog.google
January 24, 2025 at 1:06 PM
tg-at.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers (WITH ALT TEXT).
#BookSky 💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
9/20
The cover of the book "Design Meets Disability" by Graham Pullin. The cover shows a close up of a pair of glasses, styled in a newsprint pattern, against a black background. The title is in white above this image and the author's name is on a beige strip at the bottom.
January 24, 2025 at 1:02 PM