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Interface and language issues in intelligent systems for people with disabilities

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The papers in this volume provide us with a snapshot of the variety of issues that must be considered when applying AI technologies to projects involving people with disabilities. Here a focus is on controlling interfaces and language issues. The AI technologies used are quite varied; the resulting ideas have a great deal of promise and point us to future possibilities.

This work has been supported by a Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center grant from the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (#H133E30010). Additional support was provided by the Nemours Foundation.

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  1. Computer and Information Sciences Department and Applied Science and Engineering Laboratories, University of Delaware/duPont Hospital for Children, 19716, Newark, DE, USA

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McCoy, K.F. (1998). Interface and language issues in intelligent systems for people with disabilities. In: Mittal, V.O., Yanco, H.A., Aronis, J., Simpson, R. (eds) Assistive Technology and Artificial Intelligence. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1458. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0055966

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