Hello! I’m Claire, a PhD student focused on research in communication disorders and technology-assisted interventions. My work bridges research and clinical practice as a licensed Speech-Language Pathologist.
Hello! I’m Claire, a PhD student focused on research in communication disorders and technology-assisted interventions. My work bridges research and clinical practice as a licensed Speech-Language Pathologist.
Tobias M Weinberg, Claire O’Connor, Ricardo E. Gonzalez Penuela, Stephanie Valencia, and Thijs Roumen. 2025. One Does Not Simply ‘Mm-hmm’: Ex- ploring Backchanneling in the AAC Micro-Culture. In The 27th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS ’25), October 26–29, 2025, Denver, CO, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 14 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3663547.3746381.
Yao Du, Claire O'Connor, Ginna Byun, Lauren H. Kim, Siona Amrgousian, and Priyal Vora. 2024. Voice Assistive Technology for Activities of Daily Living: Developing an Alexa Telehealth Training for Adults with Cognitive- Communication Disorders. In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’24), May 11–16, 2024, Honolulu, HI, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 15 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904. 3642788.
Claire O'Connor,, Lauren H. Kim, Ginna Byun, and Priyal Vora. 2023. Designing Voice-Assisted Tech- nology (VAT) Training for Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) for Adults with Cognitive-Communication Needs (CCNs) at Home.In The 25th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS ’23), October 22–25, 2023, New York, NY, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 16 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3597638.3615656.