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Artificial Intelligence for AAC

André Cùmara Rafael Ferreira Péricles Miranda Jonathan Gomes João Uchoa Vinícius Souza Thamires Lopes Joao Victor

AI to give voice to people with disabilities

This project is a collaboration between AIBox Lab and LIVOX (www.livox.com.br), an award-winning Alternative Communication App. The developed innovations include a context-aware on-device recommender system for faster pictogram selection, speech recognition and NLP tools to speedup communication with interlocutors, among others.

Relevant publications:

UCHOA, JOAO P. C. ; FALCAO, TACIANA PONTUAL ; NASCIMENTO, ANDRE C. ; MIRANDA, PERICLES B.C. ; MELLO, RAFAEL FERREIRA . Fostering Autonomy through Augmentative and Alternative Communication. In: 2021 International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT), 2021, Tartu. 2021 International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT), 2021. p. 320

Paulo Henrique Calado Aoun ; ANDRÉ C. A. NASCIMENTO ; Adenilton J. da Silva . Evaluation of Dimensionality Reduction and Truncation Techniques for Word Embeddings. In: Encontro Nacional de InteligĂȘncia Artificial e Computacional,, 2018, SĂŁo Paulo. Anais do Encontro Nacional de InteligĂȘncia Artificial e Computacional,, 2018. p. 903-911.

Neamtu, Rodica & Camara, Andre & Pereira, Carlos & Ferreira, Rafael. (2019). Using Artificial Intelligence for Augmentative Alternative Communication for Children with Disabilities. In: Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2019 pp 234-243. 2019