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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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[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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Joseph M. Butter, of course, did go on to occupy high political office as a result of his military exploits. A fact still commemorated on supermarket shelves to this day…
A wrapper for President Butter, a brand of butter popular in the UK.
March 31, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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I don't know who would be crazy enough to buy such an obvious piece of walking, talking, sandwich-making spyware... but I do admire the chutzpah of the "Research" page on their website, which I wish I could get away with...
An image of a person in a white coat wearing safety goggles, concentrating on something (unseen) on the desk in front of them. The words "We are currently researching, page will be available soon" is overlaid in white text.
February 21, 2025 at 10:21 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).
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#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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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
1/10
The front cover of "One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time" by Craig Brown. The four Beatles are pictured on the cover, smiling, with Paul playing a tambourine and George playing a toy trumpet. The title is in large stylised pink and yellow text appearing to shoot in from both sides of the cover. The author's name is at the bottom.
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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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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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
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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
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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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
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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
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
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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
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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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
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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
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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Lest we forget Old Man Willow from Lord of the Rings: so many childhood nightmares 😳 "the hearts of the trees and their thoughts, which were often dark and strange, and filled with a hatred of things that go free upon the earth, gnawing, biting, breaking, hacking, burning: destroyers and usurpers"
A drawing of a Willow tree by JRR Tolkien. It is labelled (bottom-right) Old Man Willow in reference to the malign tree which attempts to crush the hobbits in The Lord of the Rings.
January 27, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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I'm afraid it gets worse... there is a "controversy" section but it's relegated to two bullets at the bottom and you have to expand the section to find it...
A screenshot of a Google search with the search bar reading "what is facilitated communication" and the Al Overview reading "Facilitated communication (FC) is a technique that helps people with communication impairments express themselves. It involves a person pointing to letters, pictures, or objects, or typing on a keyboard, with the help of a facilitator." A subsequent subheading reads "How it works" before two bullet points reading "The facilitator may physically support the person's hand, wrist, elbow, or shoulder" and "The facilitator may also hold up an alphabet chart and encourage the person to touch letters." At this point the text fades out to indicate that the user must expand the section to read more. Two links on the right under the heading "Learn more" lead to a Wikipedia article and a page from "Raising Children Network".
January 27, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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"An AI Overview is not available for this search" 🤨
A Google search bar containing the query "what are the problems with facilitated communication". The top response reads "An Al Overview is not available for this search"
January 27, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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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
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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
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
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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
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
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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
8/20
The front cover of the sixth edition of the book book "How to Read a Paper - The basics of evidence-based medicine and healthcare". The cover is predominantly purple with a white band across the middle.
January 23, 2025 at 3:29 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
7/20
The cover of the book “Statistics without Tears - An introduction for non-mathematicians” by Derek Rowntree. Title at the top, author’s name at the bottom and a collection of coloured mathematical symbols in the centre, arranged to look like the features of a smiling face.
January 22, 2025 at 7:41 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
6/20
The cover of the book "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams. The title (in white) and the author's name (in yellow) are at the bottom, above the words "Foreword by Russell T Davies". At the very top is a line which reads "Over 15 million copies sold". The main cover image is a robot with a sad face, a traffic cone on top of the Earth, a small yellow fish and two white mice, all in a cartoon style, superimposed on a backdrop of stars and galaxies.
January 21, 2025 at 9:29 AM