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  • Vocal Programming for People with Upper-Body Motor Impairments

    Lucas Rosenblatt, Patrick Carrington, Kotaro Hara, Jeffrey P. Bigham · 2018 · Proceedings of the 15th International Web for All Conference (W4A 2018)

    This paper presents VocalIDE, a prototype voice-based integrated development environment (IDE) designed to enable people with upper-body motor impairments to write and edit computer code using speech commands rather than a keyboard. Only 4% of professional programmers have…

    speech recognition · motor impairment · cerebral palsy · spinal cord injury · programming education

  • Assessing Virtual Assistant Capabilities with Italian Dysarthric Speech

    Fabio Ballati, Fulvio Corno, Luigi De Russis · 2018 · Proceedings of the 20th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '18)

    This paper evaluates how well three major smartphone virtual assistants — Apple's Siri, Google Assistant, and Microsoft's Cortana — can understand and respond to Italian dysarthric speech. Dysarthria is a motor speech disorder characterized by slurred, slow, or…

    speech recognition · dysarthria · virtual assistant · voice interface · ALS

  • Autonomous Selection and Printing of 3D Models for People Who Are Blind

    Timo Götzelmann · 2018 · ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

    This paper addresses a significant autonomy gap: while 3D printed models are increasingly used in schools for blind students to understand spatial concepts through touch, the process of finding and printing these models has required sighted assistance. People who are blind could…

    blindness · visual impairment · 3D printing · tactile graphics · voice control

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