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Dr Tom Griffiths @tg-at.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

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

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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.

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Dr Tom Griffiths @tg-at.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

[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.

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Dr Tom Griffiths @tg-at.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

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.

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Dr Tom Griffiths @tg-at.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

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 🥁)

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Dr Tom Griffiths @tg-at.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

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.

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Dr Tom Griffiths @tg-at.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

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.

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Dr Tom Griffiths @tg-at.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

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!

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Dr Tom Griffiths @tg-at.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

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)

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Dr Tom Griffiths @tg-at.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

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.

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Dr Tom Griffiths @tg-at.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

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?...

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Prince - Super Bowl XLI 🏈 | Halftime Show 2007 FULL SHOW HD

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Dr Tom Griffiths @tg-at.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

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.

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Dr Tom Griffiths @tg-at.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

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.

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Dr Tom Griffiths @tg-at.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

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...

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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

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Dr Tom Griffiths @tg-at.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

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.

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Dr Tom Griffiths @tg-at.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

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.

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Dr Tom Griffiths @tg-at.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

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.

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Dr Tom Griffiths @tg-at.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

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...

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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

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Dr Tom Griffiths @tg-at.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

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.

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Dr Tom Griffiths @tg-at.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

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.

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Dr Tom Griffiths @tg-at.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

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..."
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Dr Tom Griffiths @tg-at.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

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.

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Dr Tom Griffiths @tg-at.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

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.

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Dr Tom Griffiths @tg-at.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

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.

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Dr Tom Griffiths @tg-at.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

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.

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Dr Tom Griffiths @tg-at.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

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.

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Dr Tom Griffiths @tg-at.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

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.

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Dr Tom Griffiths @tg-at.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

The front cover of the book “The Design of Everyday Things” by Donald A. Norman. The title is at the top, the author’s name at the bottom. The main image is a black and white image of a teapot where the handle and spout are both on the same side.

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Dr Tom Griffiths @tg-at.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Fantastic time last night seeing good pals and #shoegaze #dreampop legends Secret Shine in Shoreditch - new songs and old ones sounding great… 💜 #livemusic secretshine.bandcamp.com/music

The band Secret Shine performing in a club, lit by purple lighting with the band name projected on a screen behind them.

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Dr Tom Griffiths @tg-at.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

The cover of the book “High Fidelity” by Nick Hornby, with the title at the top, the author’s name at the bottom and an image of a stack of cassette tapes, the top one of which is spooling tape onto the ones below.

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Bronwyn Hemsley @bronwynhemsley.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

We soon wrap up the first stage of our search for any literature on #GestaltLanguageProcessing #NaturalLanguageAcquisition So plz share on socials - if anyone knows of *any publications in progress/completed we contact authors to ask for a copy. Quite a few good finds so far. Thanks for helping!

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Dr Tom Griffiths @tg-at.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

The cover of the book "Eye Tracking: A Comprehensive Guide to Methods and Measures" edited by Kenneth Holmqvist, Marcus Nystrom, Richard Andersson, Richard Dewhurst, Halszka Jarodzka and Joost van de Weijer. The cover shows a closeup of a blue eye with a white crosshair centred on the pupil and a black crosshair centred on the glint of reflected light within it.

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Dr Tom Griffiths @tg-at.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

The cover of the book “The Efficacy of Augmentative and Alternative Communication - Toward Evidence-Based Practice” by Ralf W. Schlosser. The cover has green and yellow blocks, overlaid on a black and grey abstract pattern.

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Dr Tom Griffiths @tg-at.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

(Inspired by @stevenmrose.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 1/20

The cover of Bad Science by Ben Goldacre - featuring the title and author's name and a picture of a white mouse, on which a pair of glasses have been crudely drawn.

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Dr Tom Griffiths @tg-at.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

An exciting day as we begin induction tutorials for the fifth cohort of our #MSc in #AssistiveTechnology @dundee.ac.uk - this is our largest group of students to date and we are looking forward to welcoming all of you to this year's run of the course! www.dundee.ac.uk/postgraduate...

dundee.ac.uk

Educational Assistive Technology (part-time) MSc

Learn how to put in place and support the use of assistive technology. This will enhance the learning experience of people with disabilities in education

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Dr Tom Griffiths @tg-at.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Really excited to see this incredible, life-saving #medicaldevice in use, and proud to say I played a tiny (like, TINY) part in the testing and validation of it while working at @cuhnhs.bsky.social - huge congratulations to the @royalpapworth.bsky.social team! www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

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Machine to revive donor organs used in double-lung transplant in UK first

Exclusive: Daniel Evans-Smith tells of transformative effect of operation using technology that could cut waiting lists

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Dr Tom Griffiths @tg-at.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

This increasingly homogenous tone brought about by #AI is something we discuss a lot - consider how much greater the impact is for #AAC #AugComm users. Identity may be conveyed through text-to-speech, where AI might soon arrive to "improve" their output. www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

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Losing our voice? Fears AI tone-shifting tech could flatten communication

As Apple Intelligence rollout continues, linguists say tools to rewrite texts and emails add ‘extra layer of inauthenticity’

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Dr Tom Griffiths @tg-at.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Hard relate. Could not care less about anything stolen from the Crown Jewels, but tea has no place in / near a microwave! (Another masterstroke from @xkcd.com) imgs.xkcd.com/comics/makin...

A hand-drawn continuum entitled “Ways of Making Tea (by how angry British people get when Americans do them). From left to right, these are “Making it in a kettle”, “Boiling water in a pot, steeping in a mug”, “Making it in a chalice and ampulla stolen from the Crown Jewels” and finally, located a long way to the right of the others, “Microwaving a mug”.

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Dr Tom Griffiths @tg-at.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Anyone interested in #AI in #healthcare #oncology #cancer: our paper "OSAIRIS: Lessons Learned from the Hospital-Based Implementation and Evaluation of an #OpenSource #DeepLearning Model for #Radiotherapy Image Segmentation" is #openaccess until 29/12: www.clinicaloncologyonline.net/article/S093...

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Dr Tom Griffiths @tg-at.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Vital reading for any #bskyspeechies or those involved in #AAC #AugComm - this is a brilliant read, incredible resource & available entirely free, ahead of @bronwynhemsley.bsky.social and team's upcoming systematic review on #GestaltLanguageProcessing #GLP #NaturalLanguageAcquisition #NLA

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Dr Tom Griffiths @tg-at.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Early risers at #ASHA2024 #ASHA24! Go see @sarahhayward.bsky.social present her incredible work on participatory action research for co-designing and developing #AAC #AugComm and education resources to promote collaboration between parents and professionals: plan.core-apps.com/asha2024/eve...

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2024 ASHA Convention

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Dr Tom Griffiths @tg-at.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

If you're attending #ASHA2024 #ASHA24, I urge you to go and listen to @bronwynhemsley.bsky.social present her team's work - I was lucky enough to see a version of this at Communication Matters Conference this year and it is a brilliantly constructed study with hugely important outcomes for practice!

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Dr Tom Griffiths @tg-at.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Taking this opportunity (just because I can) to make my first ever @bsky.app post from inside the House of Commons! Hello #ATech friends - lovely to see you all here!

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