no code implementations • 3 Dec 2023 • Shanqing Cai, Subhashini Venugopalan, Katie Seaver, Xiang Xiao, Katrin Tomanek, Sri Jalasutram, Meredith Ringel Morris, Shaun Kane, Ajit Narayanan, Robert L. MacDonald, Emily Kornman, Daniel Vance, Blair Casey, Steve M. Gleason, Philip Q. Nelson, Michael P. Brenner
A pilot study with 19 non-AAC participants typing on a mobile device by hand demonstrated gains in motor savings in line with the offline simulation, while introducing relatively small effects on overall typing speed.
no code implementations • NAACL 2022 • Shanqing Cai, Subhashini Venugopalan, Katrin Tomanek, Ajit Narayanan, Meredith Ringel Morris, Michael P. Brenner
Motivated by the need for accelerating text entry in augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) for people with severe motor impairments, we propose a paradigm in which phrases are abbreviated aggressively as primarily word-initial letters.
no code implementations • 24 Jan 2019 • Ajit Narayanan
The results show that a new type of metric-based ethics appropriate for autonomous intelligent machines is feasible and that our current concept of ethical reasoning being largely qualitative in nature may need revising if want to construct future autonomous machines that have an ethical dimension to their reasoning so that they become moral machines.