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An implementation of an eye-blink-based communication aid for people with severe disabilities

2008 International Conference on Audio, Language and Image Processing, 2008
This paper presents an implementation of a low-cost vision-based computer interface which allows people with severe disabilities to use eye blinks to access computers and communicate with other persons. Our communication aid requires only one low-cost Web camera and a personal computer.
Pa-Chun Wang, Shawmin Hou, Mu-Chun Su, Shih-Chieh Lin, Chinyen Yeh   +4 more
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Some interface issues in developing intelligent communication aids for people with disabilities

Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Intelligent user interfaces - IUI '97, 1997
Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) is the field of study concerned with providing devices and techniques to augment the communicative ability of a person whose disability makes it difficult to speak in an understandable fashion. For several years, we have been applying natural language processing techniques to the field of AAC in order to
Patrick Demasco, Arlene Luberoff Badman, Kathleen F. McCoy, Christopher A. Pennington   +3 more
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Working Memory Demands of Aided Augmentative and Alternative Communication for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities

Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 2013
When speech is not functional to meet some or all of an individual's communication needs, aided augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) systems are often implemented. Although aided AAC systems offer some advantages over speech, they also impose some unique demands, especially on working memory, which is commonly defined as the cognitive ...
Krista M. Wilkinson, Jennifer J. Thistle
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Psychometric properties of Psychopathology checklists for Adults with Intellectual Disability (P-AID) on a community sample of adults with intellectual disability

Research in Developmental Disabilities, 2008
The DC-LD is a new classification system providing operationalized diagnostic criteria in recognition of lacking applicability of standard psychiatric criteria for adults with intellectual disability. This study attempts to evaluate internal consistency, inter-rater reliability and factor structure of the Psychopathology Checklists for Adults with ...
Oddbjørn Hove, Odd E. Havik
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EyeAssist: A communication aid through gaze tracking for patients with neuro-motor disabilities

2017 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PerCom Workshops), 2017
The paper presents EyeAssist, a low cost, user friendly communication aid developed specifically for individuals suffering from neuro-motor problems. Existing gaze based typing systems encounter problems of unintentional key presses, extensive calibration process and inbuilt noise of eye trackers.
Sapna Naitam, Rahul Gavas, Debatri Chatterjee, Ved Raj, Anwesha Khasnobish   +4 more
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Development of Communication Aid Device for Disabled Persons Using Corneal Surface Reflection Image

Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Graphics and Signal Processing, 2018
Improving quality of life (QOL) has become an important issue for patients with neurological diseases such as ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) and SMA (spinal atrophy). At the same time, it is indispensable to secure a communication device that displays its own intention, and various interfaces have been proposed.
Shinnosuke Aikawa, Toshikazu Matsui, Nobuaki Nakazawa   +2 more
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Examining Issues of Aided Communication Display and Navigational Strategies for Young Children with Developmental Disabilities

Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities, 2010
Gestural mode and graphic mode augmentative communication systems offer viable options for young communicators with cognitive and physical disabilities that preclude speech or result in speech that has insufficient intelligibility to be understood by a range of communicative partners.
Kathryn D. R. Drager, Joe Reichle
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Communication aid for disabled patients makes use of facial EMG signals and neural nets

IEE Colloquium on `Mechatronic Aids for the Disabled', 1995
This paper describes the development of hardware and software to enable patients disabled by paralysis, and others with difficulties in speaking, to carry out meaningful communication by means of the intelligent analysis and interpretation of information derived from electromyogram (EMG) signals generated by facial muscles. >
D.K. Chadwick, J. Dinsdale
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Extended smartphone-aided program to sustain daily activities, communication and leisure in individuals with intellectual and sensory-motor disabilities

Research in Developmental Disabilities, 2020
Smartphone-aided programs were recently developed to support leisure engagement and communication with distant partners in individuals with special needs. This study evaluated an extended smartphone-aided program that supported daily activities in addition to communication and leisure in individuals with intellectual and visual or visuo-motor ...
Giulio E. Lancioni, Nirbhay N. Singh, Mark F. O’Reilly, Jeff Sigafoos, Gloria Alberti, Valeria Chiariello, Serafino Buono   +6 more
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The critical role of community-based micro-grants for disability aids and equipment: results from a needs analysis

Disability and Rehabilitation, 2015
To investigate the role of philanthropic micro-grants (maximum of $10,000) in the provision of aids and equipment for adults (aged 18-65 years of age) with complex disabilities and examine key trends in aids and equipment requests.This study examined, through quantitative and qualitative analysis, aids and equipment requests (n = 371 individual ...
Muenchberger, H, Ehrlich, C, Parekh, S, Crozier, M   +3 more
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