Conversation support for people with aphasia in distant communication

This paper discusses a conversation support system for people with aphasia in distant communication. The aim of our system is to improve the quality of lives (QoL) of people suffering cognitive disabilities. In this framework, a topic list is used as a conversation assistant in addition to the video phone. The important feature is sharing the focus of attention on the topic list between a patient and the communication partner over the network in order to facilitate distant communication. The results of two preliminary experiments indicate the potential of the system.