• DocumentCode
    1602812
  • Title

    A study on the effectiveness of biometrics based alternative communication tool

  • Author

    Ann, Ong Chin ; Theng, Lau Bee

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Eng., Comput. & Sci., Swinburne Univ. of Technol., Kuching, Malaysia
  • fYear
    2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    4
  • Abstract
    People with Cerebral Palsy (CP) suffer from speech, physical and intellectual disabilities. Many augmentative and alternative communication tools (AAC) have been developed and recommended by speech pathologies to improve their communication ability. However, the existing recommended AAC tools seem to be less efficient as they focused on text-to-speech, speech-to-text or touch-screen. They required users to have physical coordination with the interfaces but the people with CP find them unmanageable. This paper discusses the investigation on the effectiveness of using biometrics information i.e. facial expressions as an alternative communication tool.
  • Keywords
    biometrics (access control); speech synthesis; alternative communication tools; augmentative communication; biometrics based alternative communication tool; biometrics information; cerebral palsy; facial expressions; physical coordination; speech pathology; speech-to-text; text-to-speech; touch screen; Accuracy; Biometrics; Educational institutions; Face; Face recognition; Real time systems; Speech; Augmentative and alternative bommunication; biometrics information; cerebral palsy; facial expressions;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Information, Communications and Signal Processing (ICICS) 2011 8th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Singapore
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-0029-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICICS.2011.6173578
  • Filename
    6173578