New and emerging access technologies for adults with complex communication needs and severe motor impairments: State of the science

S Koch Fager, M Fried-Oken, T Jakobs… - Augmentative and …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Individuals with complex communication needs often use alternative access technologies to
control their augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) devices, their computers …

Designing AACs for people with aphasia dining in restaurants

MG Obiorah, AMM Piper, M Horn - … of the 2021 CHI Conference on …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
There is a growing need to design augmentative and alternative communication (AAC)
devices that focus on supporting quality of life goals, such as increased social participation …

AACrobat: Using mobile devices to lower communication barriers and provide autonomy with gaze-based AAC

A Fiannaca, A Paradiso, M Shah… - Proceedings of the 2017 …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Gaze-based alternative and augmentative communication (AAC) devices provide users with
neuromuscular diseases the ability to communicate with other people through only the …

Towards the improvement of augmentative and alternative communication through the modelling of conversation

JL Arnott, N Alm - Computer Speech & Language, 2013 - Elsevier
Non-speaking people who use Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)
systems typically have low rates of communication which reduces their ability to interact with …

[PDF][PDF] Assisting social conversation between persons with Alzheimer's disease and their conversational partners

N Green, CI Guinn, RW Smith - … of the Third Workshop on Speech …, 2012 - aclanthology.org
The number of people with dementia of the Alzheimer's type (DAT) continues to grow. One of
the significant impacts of this disease is a decline in the ability to communicate using natural …

[PDF][PDF] Discourse-based modeling for AAC

M Mitchell, R Sproat - Proceedings of the Third Workshop on …, 2012 - aclanthology.org
This paper presents a method for an AAC system to predict a whole response given features
of the previous utterance from the interlocutor. It uses a large corpus of scripted dialogs …

Facilitating awareness and conversation throughput in an augmentative and alternative communication system

J Campbell, A Paradiso, J Beavers, ME Shah… - US Patent …, 2019 - Google Patents
Speech generating devices, communication systems, and methods for communicating using
the devices and systems are disclosed herein. In certain examples, a communication system …

EchoTree: Engaged Conversation when Capabilities are Limited

A Paepcke, S Kairam - 2012 - ilpubs.stanford.edu
We describe the collaborative use of word tree visualizations, EchoTrees, to facilitate face-to-
face, and remote communication with speech and movement impaired individuals …

Supporting Communication in Traumatic Brain Injury using AAC

LG Bardach - Clinical Cases in Augmentative and Alternative …, 2023 - taylorfrancis.com
Survivors of traumatic brain injury (TBI) often experience significant communication
challenges due to pervasive motor, linguistic, and cognitive deficits and may benefit from the …

Directed personal communication for speech generating devices

J Campbell, A Paradiso, J Beavers, ME Shah… - US Patent …, 2018 - Google Patents
Speech generating devices, communication systems, and methods for communicating using
the devices and systems are disclosed herein. In certain examples, the speech generating …