ICT-AAC e-Galerija Senior

This is the first application designed for people adulthood developed in the framework of the ICT-AAC. Individual customers' needs and the level of communication and language and speech development of the individual will determine the manner and purpose of use of the application. Is primarily designed to get the communications needs resulting from damage to the brain, such as aphasia and traumatic brain injury. The application contains three stories that are three, four seven photographs showing the sequence of daily events and doing their normal activities. The action on each painting is accompanied by a written text. Besides encouraging self-expression based on monitoring the sequence of events, promotes the retelling of the creation of causal relationships.

The application is useful in developing the capabilities of monitoring the timeliness of, the creation of complex sentences when speaking of expression, understanding of the soundtrack, memory and naming actions, events, people and objects. The "Sort story allows stacking known story that is displayed in a different order than in the original, and encourages, in addition to language, and higher cognitive skills of memory and reasoning. Events individual user can independently take pictures and come up with a new story which is extremely important because it allows the display of personal experiences that are motivating for adults with aphasia and traumatic brain injury.

Using applications

The application of ICT AAC e-Gallery Senior enables stacking story through a series of thumbnails that can be photos taken with the integrated camera device, image galleries from devices or symbols from the three non-commercial gallery (ARAASAC, Mulberry and Sclera). Each frame can be attributed to text and audio clip describing the appropriate part of the story. The sound is played back by pressing the thumbnail image in playback story. Besides viewing the existing and creating new stories, the application contains two games: "Sort story" and "Remove intruders". In the game "Sort story" the user has to sort mixed thumbnails of selected stories in the right order, while in the game "Spot the Odd" user must select the images that do not belong to the story.

Application settings allow user to adjust the font size and the size of thumbnails, automatic rotation of the story and change the background color, frame images and text.