Sibylle, An assistive communication system adapting to the context and its user

ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Wandmacher, Tonio ^a   Antoine, Jean Yves ^a   Poirier, Franck ^b   Départe, Jean Paul ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ EUROPÉENNE DE BRETAGNE   (France)

^c Centre Mutualiste de Rééducation et de Réadaptation Fonctionnelle de Kerpape   (France)

Author keywords

Augmentative and alternative communication; Keystroke saving rate; Latent semantic analysis; User adaptation; Virtual keyboard; Word prediction

Indexed keywords

AUGMENTATIVE-AND-ALTERNATIVE COMMUNICATION; LATENT SEMANTIC ANALYSIS; USER ADAPTATION; VIRTUAL KEYBOARDS; WORD PREDICTION;

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; FORECASTING; HANDICAPPED PERSONS; HUMAN REHABILITATION ENGINEERING; SEMANTICS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

COMPUTER KEYBOARDS;

EID: 70350308073     PISSN: 19367228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1361203.1361209     Document Type: Conference Paper

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