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• Exploring the Usability of Gaze-based Mobile Communication in Ghana

  Victoria Austin, Gifty Ayoka, Giulia Barbareschi, Richard Cave, Catherine Holloway · 2025 · ASSETS 2025: 27th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

  This study evaluates the usability of Look to Speak, a free Android-based eye-gaze AAC application developed by Google Creative Lab, for people with severe communication disabilities in Ghana. The research involved training 10 local speech and language therapists (SLTs) and…

  augmentative communication · AAC · eye gaze · Global South · Ghana

• Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) for Communication and Control

  Jonathan R. Wolpaw · 2007 · Proceedings of the 9th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '07)

  This keynote paper from Jonathan Wolpaw at the Wadsworth Center (New York State Department of Health) provides an overview of brain-computer interface (BCI) research aimed at developing augmentative communication and control technology for people with severe neuromuscular…

  brain-computer interface · augmentative communication · neuromuscular disorders · ALS · EEG

• EasyVoice: Integrating Voice Synthesis with Skype

  Paulo A. Condado, Fernando G. Lobo · 2007 · Proceedings of the 9th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '07)

  This paper presents EasyVoice, a system developed at the University of Algarve that integrates text-to-speech synthesis with Skype to enable people with voice disabilities to have real-time phone conversations. The core insight is that while TTS systems and VoIP applications had…

  voice disabilities · text-to-speech · VoIP · augmentative communication · virtual keyboard

• Corpus Studies in Word Prediction

  Keith Trnka, Kathleen F. McCoy · 2007 · Proceedings of the 9th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '07)

  This paper from the University of Delaware investigates how the choice and combination of training corpora affects the performance of statistical word prediction systems for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) devices. The fundamental challenge is that AAC users…

  word prediction · AAC · language model · natural language processing · corpus linguistics

• Iconic language design for people with significant speech and multiple impairments

  P. L. Albacete, S.-K. Chang, G. Polese, B. Baker · 1994 · Proceedings of the First Annual ACM Conference on Assistive Technologies (Assets '94)

  This paper presents a formal methodology for designing iconic languages used in augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) systems for people with significant speech and multiple impairments (SSMI). The authors build on the Minspeak system, conceived by co-author Bruce…

  AAC · iconic language · semantic compaction · Minspeak · speech impairment

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