Dialogue systems with autism

I went to see my supervisor on Friday, and we talked some about dialogue systems, which he does a lot of research on. He told me this interesting thing: when you sum up the mistakes a dialogue system makes, you end up with a list which more or less describes the communication problems that children [...]

A thousand words - or a few?

“A picture says more than a thousand words”. I think most of us have said or heard this, but maybe without giving it much thought. The implicit meaning is the more words you convey, the better. Is that always true?
Persons with communications impairments often need some sort of augmentative or alternative communication (AAC). Spoken language [...]