Title :
AI and augmentative communication: where are we and where to go?
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Queens Coll., City Univ. of New York, Flushing, NY, USA
Abstract :
The author discusses the motivations behind the application of artificial intelligence (AI) techniques in augmentative communication, describes the representative research activities in augmentative communication, and explores the potential research areas which merge AI and augmentative communication. Current research on augmentative communication consists of three areas of concentration: clinical study, device assessment, and design methodologies. Clinical study focuses on identifying the types and levels of dysarthria that can be matched to the use of certain `assistive´ technologies, for example, use of speech synthesis and recognition to assist voice communication. The other two areas focus on the assessment of existing augmentative communication devices and design methodologies for new augmentative communication devices, respectively
Keywords :
artificial intelligence; handicapped aids; reviews; augmentative communication; clinical study; design methodologies; device assessment; dysarthria; speech recognition; speech synthesis; voice communication; Application software; Artificial intelligence; Birth disorders; Computer science; Computer vision; Educational institutions; Man machine systems; Parkinson´s disease; Speech recognition; Writing;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1989. Images of the Twenty-First Century., Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in
Conference_Location :
Seattle, WA
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.1989.96458
