Enhancing Alternative and Augmentative Communications Devices with Context Awareness Computing

The paper reports the development of a software framework that assists programmers to enhance Alternative and Augmentative Communications (AAC) devices by applying context awareness technologies. Based on the situational contexts including the location and the categories of the conversation, the enhanced system can be highly personalized and can filter, sort the words internally and highlight the words in display. The objective is to lessen the burden of device-aided communication by proactively delivering situational dependent words derived from historical usage contexts.