AIMC Topic: Communication Devices for People with Disabilities

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User Adaptive Text Predictor for Mentally Disabled Huntington's Patients.

Computational intelligence and neuroscience
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...

Training and testing ERP-BCIs under different mental workload conditions.

Journal of neural engineering
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...

Assessment of brain-machine interfaces from the perspective of people with paralysis.

Journal of neural engineering
OBJECTIVE: One of the main goals of brain-machine interface (BMI) research is to restore function to people with paralysis. Currently, multiple BMI design features are being investigated, based on various input modalities (externally applied and surg...

Participation and Enjoyment in Play with a Robot between Children with Cerebral Palsy who use AAC and their Peers.

Augmentative and alternative communication (Baltimore, Md. : 1985)
This study explores children with complex communication needs, their peers and adult support persons in play with the talking and moving robot LekBot. Two triads were filmed playing with LekBot at pre-school. LekBot was developed to facilitate indepe...

Low-dimensional recurrent neural network-based Kalman filter for speech enhancement.

Neural networks : the official journal of the International Neural Network Society
This paper proposes a new recurrent neural network-based Kalman filter for speech enhancement, based on a noise-constrained least squares estimate. The parameters of speech signal modeled as autoregressive process are first estimated by using the pro...

Language-Model Assisted Brain Computer Interface for Typing: A Comparison of Matrix and Rapid Serial Visual Presentation.

IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
Noninvasive electroencephalography (EEG)-based brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) popularly utilize event-related potential (ERP) for intent detection. Specifically, for EEG-based BCI typing systems, different symbol presentation paradigms have been ut...

Huffman and linear scanning methods with statistical language models.

Augmentative and alternative communication (Baltimore, Md. : 1985)
Current scanning access methods for text generation in AAC devices are limited to relatively few options, most notably row/column variations within a matrix. We present Huffman scanning, a new method for applying statistical language models to binary...

Using robots in "Hands-on" academic activities: a case study examining speech-generating device use and required skills.

Disability and rehabilitation. Assistive technology
PURPOSE: A 12-year-old girl, Emily, with complex communication needs and severe physical limitations, controlled a Lego robot from a speech-generating device (SGD) to do various "hands-on" academic activities. Emily's teacher and assistive technology...