PROPOSTA DE UM DISPOSITIVO PARA COMUNICAÇÃO AUMENTADA ALTERNATIVA

To ensure a good social life, it is necessary for people to be able to transmit information so that it can be correctly understood. Communication can be verbal, in the form of speech or writing, or nonverbal, through body language. When diagnosing the communication disability of a person, it’s possible to help increase and/or improve the communication through the creation of augmented and alternative communication devices (AAC). The goal of this work is to propose a method for the creation of an AAC device with a centered-user design, in which the main characteristics are portability and low cost, using the available technologies. A questionnaire was applied and the results showed that the devices used by the interviewed patients do not fully attend their needs, showing an importance of the development of a new AAC device. This way, it’s expected that the proposed methodology of this study should be used to create a new AAC device that can comply with the real needs of the users.