University of Dundee

ACE-LP

Black, Rolf; Kristensson, Per Ola; Zhang, Jianguo; Waller, Annalu; Bano, Sophia; Rashid,Zulqarnain; Norrie, Christopher

Publication date:2016

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Citation for published version (APA):Black, R., Kristensson, P. O., Zhang, J., Waller, A., Bano, S., Rashid, Z., & Norrie, C. (2016). ACE-LP:Augmenting Communication using Environmental Data to drive Language Prediction. Poster session presentedat Communication Matters - CM2016 National Conference, Leeds, United Kingdom.

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Text-basedSpeechGeneratingDevices(SGDs):• Keyboard:directaccess/scanning;• Encoding,expansion,prediction,disambiguation.

University of DundeeAugmenting Communication using Environmental Data to drive Language Prediction

Rolf Black1, Stephen McKenna1, Jianguo Zhang1, Per Ola Kristensson2, Christopher Norrie1, Sophia Bano1, Zulqarnain Rashid1, Annalu Waller1

1University of Dundee, UK, 2University of Cambridge, UK

References ContactDundeeAACResearchGroup,ProfAnnaluWallerComputingintheSchoolofScienceandEngineeringUniversityofDundee,DundeeDD14HN,ScotlandEmail:a.waller@dundee.ac.uk,Projectwebsite:http://ACE-LP.ac.uk

AcknowledgementsThisresearchisfundedbytheEngineeringandPhysicalSciencesResearchCouncil(EPSRC)oftheUKResearchCouncils.GrantReference:EP/N014278/1

Current AAC TechnologyUseofConversationalLanguageModels:• Handcraftedcontextualconversationalitems;• Stagesofconversation(e.g.greetings,farewells);• Data-to-textsentencegeneratorsfornarrativebasedsystems.

UseofSensorData:• Contextprediction;• Storygeneration.

Wordandphraseprediction,on-screenkeyboard,directorscanningswitchaccess.claro-apps.com

Disambiguationwithdirectaccessthrougheyegazewithdwell-freetyping.tobiidynavox.com

T.A.L.K.withhandcraftedconversationalitems.Todman etal.1994

Encoding(SemanticCompaction)withdirectorscanningswitchaccess.minspeak.com

Data-to-textforautomaticphrasegenerationbasedonpersonalexperiencedata.Dempster etal.2010

LocationcontextdeterminationusingGPSandWifi oniPhone;myvoiceaac.com

Limitations:

• Scanningwordlists(prediction)• Accessmethodneedstraining(disambiguation)• Limitedvocabulary(encoding)• Needtoremembertheexistenceandlocationofconversationalitems(encoding,pre-stored);

• Nottimelyorfitting(script,pre-stored)

Our Aim

ProposedSystem

Integratedcontextual,adaptiveSGDforindividualswithphysicaldisabilities:• Useofcomputervisionandcontextualdatacollectiontoinformprediction;

• Developmentofanewuserinterfaceforaccesstopredictedwords,phrasesandstories.

Possiblethrough:• Recentadvancesinenvironmentaldatacollection;

• Abilitytoprocesslargeamountsofdatainreal-time;

• Probabilisticlanguagemodellingandtheavailabilityofmobileplatforms.

Scriptbasedutterancesystemforsituationalconversations.McCoyetal.2010

Egocentricvideodataforcontextrelevantvocabularyidentificationandprovision.Shamdani andPeña 2015

Partners

Dempster M,NAlm andEReiter(2010).AutomaticgenerationofconversationalutterancesandnarrativeforAugmentativeandAlternativeCommunication:aprototypesystem.SLPATWorkshop,LosAngeles,USA.

McCoyKF,JBedrosian andLHoag(2010).ImplicationsofPragmaticandCognitiveTheoriesontheDesignofUtterance-BasedAACSystems.SLPATWorkshop,LosAngeles,USA.

Shamdani SandAPeña(2015).Verse:Contextualaugmentedrealitycommunicationaid.Communicaiton MattersConference,Leeds,UK.

Todman J,NAlm andLElder(1994).Computer-aidedconversation:aprototypesystemfornonspeakingpeoplewithphysicaldisabilities.AppliedPsycholinguistics.

Ouraimistodevelopacommunicationsystemfornonspeakingpeoplewhichwillimproveonthespeedofcommunicationbyautomaticallypopulatingthesystemwithappropriateconversationalitemswithin

Speechratecomparison:Naturalspeech(top),AAC:average(middle),switchaccesswithacceleration,example(bottom)

150words/minute

12w/min

2 w/min

anadaptiveinterfacethatprovidescontrolovertiminganddeliverywhilstminimisingphysicalandcognitiveload.