AIMC Topic: Communication Devices for People with Disabilities

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Improving Performance of Devanagari Script Input-Based P300 Speller Using Deep Learning.

IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering Oct 9, 2018
The performance of an existing Devanagari script (DS) input-based P300 speller with conventional machine learning techniques suffers from low information transfer rate (ITR). This occurs due to its required large size of display, i.e., 8 × 8 row-colu...
Humans Algorithms Female Young Adult Electroencephalography Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted Brain-Computer Interfaces Event-Related Potentials, P300 Communication Devices for People with Disabilities Adult Male Middle Aged Deep Learning
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Evaluation of a companion robot based on field tests with single older adults in their homes.

Assistive technology : the official journal of RESNA Jun 19, 2017
The growing number of older adults places insurmountable load on family members and professional caregivers. Assistive technology with the aid of robots can present a possible solution. The goal of this article was to test a companion robot supportin...
Patient Satisfaction Speech Recognition Software Independent Living Communication Devices for People with Disabilities Humans Female Aged Aged, 80 and over Male User-Computer Interface Robotics Internet
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Regularized Speaker Adaptation of KL-HMM for Dysarthric Speech Recognition.

IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Mar 13, 2017
This paper addresses the problem of recognizing the speech uttered by patients with dysarthria, which is a motor speech disorder impeding the physical production of speech. Patients with dysarthria have articulatory limitation, and therefore, they of...
Dysarthria Communication Devices for People with Disabilities Speech Production Measurement Male Models, Statistical Markov Chains Pattern Recognition, Automated Humans Machine Learning Algorithms Computer Simulation Female Reproducibility of Results Adult Sensitivity and Specificity
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Improving zero-training brain-computer interfaces by mixing model estimators.

Journal of neural engineering Mar 13, 2017
OBJECTIVE: Brain-computer interfaces (BCI) based on event-related potentials (ERP) incorporate a decoder to classify recorded brain signals and subsequently select a control signal that drives a computer application. Standard supervised BCI decoders ...
Humans Female Reproducibility of Results Adult Sensitivity and Specificity Machine Learning Algorithms Brain Computer Simulation Brain-Computer Interfaces Male Task Performance and Analysis Models, Statistical Evoked Potentials Data Interpretation, Statistical Communication Devices for People with Disabilities Pattern Recognition, Automated
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Ambient intelligence framework for real-time speech-to-sign translation.

Assistive technology : the official journal of RESNA Feb 2, 2017
Sign language can be used to facilitate communication with and between deaf or hard of hearing (Deaf/HH). With the advent of video streaming applications in smart TVs and mobile devices, it is now possible to use sign language to communicate over wor...
Patient Satisfaction Persons with Hearing Disabilities Communication Devices for People with Disabilities Sign Language Smartphone Humans Natural Language Processing Artificial Intelligence Internet Algorithms Video Recording Female Adult Young Adult Male Adolescent
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Representation Learning Based Speech Assistive System for Persons With Dysarthria.

IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Dec 13, 2016
An assistive system for persons with vocal impairment due to dysarthria converts dysarthric speech to normal speech or text. Because of the articulatory deficits, dysarthric speech recognition needs a robust learning technique. Representation learnin...
Humans Machine Learning Speech Production Measurement Pattern Recognition, Automated Algorithms Speech Intelligibility Reproducibility of Results Dysarthria Sensitivity and Specificity Communication Devices for People with Disabilities Treatment Outcome
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Real-Time Control of an Articulatory-Based Speech Synthesizer for Brain Computer Interfaces.

PLoS computational biology Nov 23, 2016
Restoring natural speech in paralyzed and aphasic people could be achieved using a Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) controlling a speech synthesizer in real-time. To reach this goal, a prerequisite is to develop a speech synthesizer producing intelligi...
Brain-Computer Interfaces Speech Intelligibility Phonetics Speech Acoustics Communication Devices for People with Disabilities Speech Production Measurement Neural Networks, Computer Computer Systems Biofeedback, Psychology Sound Spectrography Humans
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Performing mathematics activities with non-standard units of measurement using robots controlled via speech-generating devices: three case studies.

Disability and rehabilitation. Assistive technology Mar 15, 2016
Purpose To examine how using a Lego robot controlled via a speech-generating device (SGD) can contribute to how students with physical and communication impairments perform hands-on and communicative mathematics measurement activities. This study was...
Mathematics Humans Communication Devices for People with Disabilities User-Computer Interface Children with Disabilities Child Female Robotics Male Cerebral Palsy Speech Adolescent
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User Adaptive Text Predictor for Mentally Disabled Huntington's Patients.

Computational intelligence and neuroscience Feb 23, 2016
This paper describes in detail the design of the specialized text predictor for patients with Huntington's disease. The main aim of the specialized text predictor is to improve the text input rate by limiting the phrases that the user can type in. We...
Adaptation, Physiological Communication Devices for People with Disabilities Huntington Disease Humans Machine Learning Computer Simulation
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Training and testing ERP-BCIs under different mental workload conditions.

Journal of neural engineering Dec 10, 2015
OBJECTIVE: As one of the most popular and extensively studied paradigms of brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), event-related potential-based BCIs (ERP-BCIs) are usually built and tested in ideal laboratory settings in most existing studies, with subjec...
Word Processing Cognition Young Adult Electroencephalography Humans Brain-Computer Interfaces Adult Machine Learning Workload Task Performance and Analysis Sensitivity and Specificity Female Pattern Recognition, Automated Event-Related Potentials, P300 Male Reproducibility of Results Communication Devices for People with Disabilities
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