Computer-aided conversation: A prototype system for nonspeaking people with physical disabilities

1994 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Todman ◽  
Norman Alm ◽  
Leona Elder
Keyword(s):  
Computer System ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Physical Disabilities ◽  
Severe Disabilities ◽  
Initial Evaluation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Prototype System ◽  
Computer Aided ◽  
People With Physical Disabilities ◽  
Natural Way

ABSTRACTThis article describes the development, use, and initial evaluation of a prototype computer system to enable nonspeaking persons with severe disabilities to engage in conversation on broad topics. The conversational aid produced (via a voice synthesizer) speech acts that were selected from a prestored menu, which was constructed by the user. Features of the system included facilities for switching the conversational perspective between the speaker and listener (i.e., “your experiences and views” vs. “my experiences and views”), providing a range of comments on what the other speaker had said, effecting repair when there was a conversational breakdown, and following predicted sequences of speech acts. The initial trials of the system produced dialogues that proceeded in a natural way and achieved encouraging conversational rates.

scholarly journals Wheelchair Robot Movements Using Flex Sensor Glove

Jurnal INFORM ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 84
Author(s):  
Syahri Muharom ◽  
Tukadi Tukadi
Keyword(s):  
Physical Disabilities ◽  
Movement Control ◽  
The Other ◽  
Sensor Data ◽  
Human Power ◽  
People With Physical Disabilities

The wheelchair is one of the most commonly used tools for disability person perform activities. But many wheelchairs still use human power to move them, so this research tries to make a wheelchair robot with movement control using a flex sensor glove. In this system using two controllers where one controller is made as a master and the other as a slave, and use Bluetooth as a medium of communication between two controllers. Flex glove sensors are paired in the hands of the user or others as the master, and the controller is in a wheelchair as a slave. Sensor data in hand is sent using Bluetooth master and received by Bluetooth slave, then processed by slave controller and give a command to the motor driver to move the wheelchair. It is expected that the development of wheelchairs can facilitate people with physical disabilities in conducting activities.

Sequential Instruction System (SIS))

1970 ◽  
Vol 09 (03) ◽  
pp. 182-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. L. Reichertz ◽  
D. Courtney ◽  
F. B. Birznieks
Keyword(s):  
Computer System ◽  
Control Program ◽  
The Other ◽  
Multiple Choice Questions ◽  
Instruction System ◽  
Computer Aided ◽  
Cathode Ray Tube ◽  
Sequential Mode ◽  
Sequential Instruction ◽  
Executive System

This article describes a relatively simple conversational computer system to handle instructional texts or to perform a computer-aided testing. The system proceeds in a sequential mode with possibilities for branching forward or backward from where a sequential course is resumed.Instructional or explanatory texts and/or multiple choice questions may be displayed. According to the answers the correctness or incorrectness of the reply is indicated. After each incorrect answer references or explanations are given. If desired, these explanatory frames can also be accessed after correct answers.After completion of a course the score is displayed. SIS produces a log for the instructor including answers to individual questions and summary scores.The system is written in FORTRAN. It is designed to run under O.S. on IBM 360 series computers with 2260 cathode ray tube (CRT) displays. It exists in two versions, one operating under a stand-alone attention handler for local displays, the other requiring the B.E.S.T. (Baylor Executive System for Teleprocessing) as message control program. In this case, remote CRT’s, teletypes and typewriter-type terminals may also serve as user terminals.Though a few courses have been implemented, SIS is the basic vehicle, not the content of courses.

Prawo do głosowania osób niewidomych, słabowidzących i ociemniałych – zagadnienia wybrane

2021 ◽  
Vol 3(164) ◽  
pp. 13-36
Author(s):  
Maciej Borski
Keyword(s):  
Physical Disabilities ◽  
The Other ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Law System ◽  
Constitutional Principle ◽  
People With Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
The Many ◽  
People With Physical Disabilities ◽  
Electoral Law ◽  
Partially Sighted

The universal participation of citizens in elections is an independent constitutional value. Therefore, there is no doubt that if in practice there are barriers which prevent voters from casting a vote, it means that the electoral law system fail at guaranteeing the implementation of the constitutional principle of universality of elections to a satisfactory extent. In relation to persons with disabilities, these barriers are of various kind as a result of the many types of disabilities. They will be different for people with physical disabilities, different for people with intellectual disabilities, and different for people who are blind and partially sighted. It is the latter group of voters that the author has analysed in detail, highlighting the barriers they face and, on the other hand, drawing attention to the improvements foreseen in the Electoral Code and implementing acts that aim to eliminate these barriers.

Plastic Mold Base CAD System With Pre-Paired Feature Library

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasushi Yamaguchi ◽  
Tamotsu Hasegawa
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
Object Oriented ◽  
The Other ◽  
Prototype System ◽  
Product Data ◽  
Cad System ◽  
Base Design ◽  
Natural Way ◽  
Plastic Mold ◽  
Intrinsic Feature

Abstract A mold base is a set of fixturing components for mounting the mold onto an injection machine. Since the components have been highly standardized, mold base designers usually select components from a catalog and integrate them into complete mold bases. One of our goals is to support this way of a mold base design process. A system can help a designer by generating product data of a mold base from relative positions of components and by rearranging the whole specification of the mold base according to designer’s modification. The system should be so flexible that it can provide operations corresponding to many kinds of components. This is the other goal of our study. The paper proposes a scheme of a mold base CAD system which allows a user to design a mold base in a natural way and has flexibility to handle various kinds of components. A mold base consists of plates and other kinds of components, e.g., cavity/core inserts, bolts, pins, etc., which are all embedded into the plates with some assembly and machining information. Therefore, a feature of an embedded component such as a bolt screw should have a mate feature in the corresponding component such as a threaded hole in a plate. A pre-paired feature, a key concept proposed in this paper, consists of two features; an intrinsic feature of a component to be embedded and a mate feature to be machined in a corresponding component. A component defined with a set of pre-paired features may have its own shape as well as assembly and machining information. The system based on object-oriented scheme can generate and maintain the product data of a mold base with this kinds of components. We examined mold base components for categorizing their features and made some experiments with a prototype system.

Pattern-Recognition: A Comparison of the Performance of Clinicians and Non-Clinicians - with a Note on the Performance of a Computer-Based System

1972 ◽  
Vol 11 (01) ◽  
pp. 32-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. T. DE DOMBAL ◽  
J. C. HORROCKS ◽  
J. R. STANILAND ◽  
P. J. GUILLOU
Keyword(s):  
Pattern Recognition ◽  
Computer System ◽  
Computer Aided Diagnosis ◽  
Clinical Interview ◽  
Computer Performance ◽  
Pattern Size ◽  
Computer Aided ◽  
Computer Based ◽  
Aided Diagnosis ◽  
Better Than

This paper describes a series of 10,500 attempts at »pattern-recognition« by two groups of humans and a computer based system. There was little difference between the performances of 11 clinicians and 11 other persons of comparable intellectual capability. Both groups’ performances were related to the pattern-size, the accuracy diminishing rapidly as the patterns grew larger. By contrast the computer system increased its accuracy as the patterns increased in size.It is suggested (a) that clinicians are very little better than others at pattem-recognition, (b) that the clinician is incapable of analysing on a probabilistic basis the data he collects during a traditional clinical interview and examination and (c) that the study emphasises once again a major difference between human and computer performance. The implications as - regards human- and computer-aided diagnosis are discussed.

State Scorecard on Long-Term Services and Supports for Older Adults, People with Physical Disabilities, and Family Caregivers

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan C. Reinhard Reinhard ◽  
Ari Houser Houser ◽  
Enid Kassner Kassner ◽  
Robert Mollica Mollica ◽  
Kathleen Ujuari Ujuari ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Family Caregivers ◽  
Physical Disabilities ◽  
Services And Supports ◽  
People With Physical Disabilities
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