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  • A Web Based Multi-Linguists Symbol-to-Text AAC Application

    Chaohai Ding, Nawar Halabi, Lama Al-Zaben, Yunjia Li, E. A. Draffan, Mike Wald · 2015 · Proceedings of the 12th International Web for All Conference (W4A)

    This paper presents Symbol Dragoman, a web-based augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) application that enables users who have no spoken language to communicate in both Arabic and English using pictographic symbols. The core problem addressed is that existing AAC…

    AAC · augmentative and alternative communication · symbol communication · multilingual accessibility · Arabic

  • Iterative Design and Field Trial of an Aphasia-Friendly Email Tool

    Abdullah Al Mahmud, Jean-Bernard Martens · 2015 · ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

    This paper presents Amail, an email client specifically designed for people with aphasia—an acquired communication disorder typically caused by stroke that affects language comprehension and expression. Unlike existing AAC (Augmentative and Alternative Communication) tools that…

    aphasia · augmentative and alternative communication · email · field study · cognitive accessibility

  • Measuring the Performance of a Location-Aware Text Prediction System

    Luís Filipe Garcia, Luís Caldas De Oliveira, David Martins De Matos · 2015 · ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS)

    This study rigorously evaluates whether adding location awareness to word and sentence prediction improves communication efficiency for AAC users. The researchers developed Eugénio, a Portuguese AAC system that combines traditional word prediction with sentence prediction and…

    augmentative and alternative communication · word prediction · sentence prediction · location-awareness · context-aware computing

  • Towards Fully Automated Motion Capture of Signs -- Development and Evaluation of a Key Word Signing Avatar

    Simon Alexanderson, Jonas Beskow · 2015 · ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS)

    This research develops a cost-effective method for capturing sign language motion to animate a signing avatar for the Tivoli project—a game-based learning environment teaching Key Word Signing (KWS) to children with communication disabilities including developmental disorders,…

    sign language · motion capture · signing avatar · augmentative and alternative communication · Key Word Signing

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