AI reduces 'communication gap'

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Researchers have used artificial intelligence to reduce the 'communication gap' for nonverbal people with motor disabilities who rely on computers to converse with others.

The team, from the University of Cambridge and the University of Dundee, developed a new context-aware method that reduces this communication gap by eliminating between 50% and 96% of the keystrokes the person has to type to communicate.

The system is specifically tailed for nonverbal people and uses a range of context 'clues' - such as the user's location, the time of day or the identity of the user's speaking partner - to assist in suggesting sentences that are the most relevant for the user.