Literature Reviews

Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.

• Automatically Identifying Trouble-Indicating Speech Behaviors in Alzheimer's Disease

  Frank Rudzicz, Leila Chan Currie, Andrew Danks, Tejas Mehta, Shunan Zhao (2014) — ASSETS '14: Proceedings of the 16th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility

  This paper addresses the challenge of automatically detecting communication breakdowns in conversations with people who have Alzheimer's disease (AD). AD is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that deteriorates memory, executive capacity, visual-…

  • Alzheimer's disease
  • dementia
  • speech recognition
  • natural language processing
  • machine learning
  • cognitive accessibility
  • dialogue systems

• ChatWoz: Chatting through a Wizard of Oz

  Pedro Fialho, Luísa Coheur (2015) — ASSETS '15: Proceedings of the 17th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility

  ChatWoz is a Wizard of Oz system designed to enable autistic children to interact with caregivers through a virtual avatar. The system was motivated by widely reported cases of autistic children enthusiastically engaging with commercial virtual assis…

  • autism
  • Wizard of Oz
  • virtual agent
  • dialogue systems
  • child-caregiver interaction
  • text-to-speech
  • emotion
  • avatar
  • AAC