Connected Computer Aided Communication
Rolf Black, David Sloan, Annalu Waller · 2011
Computational support for enhancing the quality of conversation-al output of electronic communication aids is limited to literacy-based devices, even though most users are not literate. Current systems for pre-literate users are dependent on carers for input and content maintenance; no computational support is given in gene-rating and retrieving appropriate utterances. Utilizing the Social Web and the computing power afforded by online connectivity opens up exciting new possibilities of supporting communication aspects that so far have not been adopted by the communication aids industry. This is an area of high potential for impact and in-novation as recent projects have shown.