Enhancing Alternative and Augmentative Communications Devices with Context Awareness Computing

Adam Loup, Lindsay Blue, Shengru Tu

2012

Abstract

The paper reports the development of a software framework that assists programmers to enhance Alternative and Augmentative Communications (AAC) devices by applying context awareness technologies. Based on the situational contexts including the location and the categories of the conversation, the enhanced system can be highly personalized and can filter, sort the words internally and highlight the words in display. The objective is to lessen the burden of device-aided communication by proactively delivering situational dependent words derived from historical usage contexts.

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in Harvard Style

Loup A., Blue L. and Tu S. (2012). Enhancing Alternative and Augmentative Communications Devices with Context Awareness Computing . In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Software Paradigm Trends - Volume 1: ICSOFT, ISBN 978-989-8565-19-8, pages 500-505. DOI: 10.5220/0004082405000505


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icsoft12,
author={Adam Loup and Lindsay Blue and Shengru Tu},
title={Enhancing Alternative and Augmentative Communications Devices with Context Awareness Computing},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Software Paradigm Trends - Volume 1: ICSOFT,},
year={2012},
pages={500-505},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004082405000505},
isbn={978-989-8565-19-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Software Paradigm Trends - Volume 1: ICSOFT,
TI - Enhancing Alternative and Augmentative Communications Devices with Context Awareness Computing
SN - 978-989-8565-19-8
AU - Loup A.
AU - Blue L.
AU - Tu S.
PY - 2012
SP - 500
EP - 505
DO - 10.5220/0004082405000505