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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

  • READ: A (Research) Platform for Evaluating Non-visual Access Methods to Digital Documents

    Laurent Sorin, Julie Lemarié, Mustapha Mojahid · 2015 · ASSETS '15: Proceedings of the 17th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility

    READ (Documents Architecture REstitution) is a configurable research platform for evaluating alternative methods of non-visual access to digital documents. The system addresses a well-documented problem: despite extensive functionality, screen readers remain frustrating and…

    document accessibility · research platform · non-visual access · screen readers · text-to-speech

  • ChatWoz: Chatting through a Wizard of Oz

    Pedro Fialho, Luísa Coheur · 2015 · ASSETS '15: Proceedings of the 17th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility

    ChatWoz is a Wizard of Oz system designed to enable autistic children to interact with caregivers through a virtual avatar. The system was motivated by widely reported cases of autistic children enthusiastically engaging with commercial virtual assistants like Apple's Siri and…

    autism · Wizard of Oz · virtual agent · dialogue systems · child-caregiver interaction

  • Faster Text-to-Speeches: Enhancing Blind People's Information Scanning with Faster Concurrent Speech

    João Guerreiro, Daniel Gonçalves · 2015 · ASSETS '15: Proceedings of the 17th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility

    This paper investigates how blind users can scan digital information more efficiently by comparing two approaches: increasing speech rate (the traditional method) versus using concurrent speech (multiple simultaneous voices). The research leverages the "Cocktail Party…

    blindness · screen readers · text-to-speech · speech rate · concurrent speech

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