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AACDroid

AACDroid. Mobile AAC Application for Sentence Creation. Team Members: Kevin Greene, Christina Fries, Wei Liao, Hien Huynh, Jiho Kim, Apoorva Dewangan Mentor: James Han. What is AAC?.

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AACDroid

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  1. AACDroid Mobile AAC Application for Sentence Creation • Team Members: Kevin Greene, Christina Fries, Wei Liao, Hien Huynh, Jiho Kim, Apoorva Dewangan • Mentor: James Han

  2. What is AAC? • Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) refers to communication that expresses our thoughts without oral speech. • People with speech problems rely on AAC through facial expressions, gestures, symbols, pictures, and text. • 6 to 8 million people in the United States have some form of language impairment. (National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders) • AAC aids help disabled people interact socially, learn interactively, and communicate effectively. Information acquired from American Speech-Language-Hearing Association: www.asha.org

  3. Open Source AACDroid • Open source AACDroid is an AAC aid that allows users to construct sentences by choosing pictures in a sequence. • Originally created in Java for the Google Android, the AACDroid program functions in modern mobile smart phones, which have become increasingly popular. Image acquired from www.iconspedia.com

  4. Products in the Market • AAC aids currently in the market are expensive, even though they have simple functionality. Proloquo2Go DynaVox Xpress Images acquired from www.dynavox.com Image acquired from www.proloquo2go.com

  5. Decision Tree Algorithm

  6. Improvements • In the past week, the following features have been enhanced: • Ability to create customized entries • Implementation of a database to store unique entries • Display of the sentence currently being spoken

  7. Demo

  8. Future Improvements • Interface • A more extensive list of categories, items, and voices • Zoom and scroll options • Ability to create complex sentences withchoicesfor parts of speech, prepositional phrases, and conjunctions • Drag and drop, allowing the user to change the order of the buttons on the layout

  9. Future Improvements • Scalability • Creation of subcategories • Ability to set category names • Customizablebutton icons • Compatibility with other versions of Android • Porting to other platforms

  10. Future Improvements • Settings Menu • Text-to-Speech: change language, pitch, speed • Restore default database • Set start-up message

  11. Thank You • http://code.google.com/p/aac-android

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