TY - GEN
T1 - The creation and facilitation of speech and language therapy sessions for individuals with aphasia
AU - Higgins, Conor
AU - Ryan, Conor
AU - Fernstrom, Mikael
AU - Kearns, Aine
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Aphasia is the degradation of one's ability to comprehend or convey language, usually due to brain damage caused by strokes or some external force. Sufferers can regain some or all of their prior abilities, but only with significant speech and language therapy (SLT) sessions. SLT sessions are resourceintensive, as they often require skilled therapists to adapt the therapy for the individual patients. We present Ogma, a novel approach to the automatic creation of SLT sessions. Ogma is comprised of a proprietary mobile front-end application that the patients interact with, and an offline GA that designs patient-specific sessions based on a patient's progress. Key to this is the ability to accurately capture the difficulty of the generated sessions; this paper presents the results of experiments where SLT practitioners perform beta testing on Ogma, to ascertain its ability to consistently produce useful sessions of appropriate difficulty.
AB - Aphasia is the degradation of one's ability to comprehend or convey language, usually due to brain damage caused by strokes or some external force. Sufferers can regain some or all of their prior abilities, but only with significant speech and language therapy (SLT) sessions. SLT sessions are resourceintensive, as they often require skilled therapists to adapt the therapy for the individual patients. We present Ogma, a novel approach to the automatic creation of SLT sessions. Ogma is comprised of a proprietary mobile front-end application that the patients interact with, and an offline GA that designs patient-specific sessions based on a patient's progress. Key to this is the ability to accurately capture the difficulty of the generated sessions; this paper presents the results of experiments where SLT practitioners perform beta testing on Ogma, to ascertain its ability to consistently produce useful sessions of appropriate difficulty.
KW - Aphasia
KW - Evolutionary computation
KW - Genetic algorithm
KW - Speech and language therapy
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84905643836&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/2598394.2598485
DO - 10.1145/2598394.2598485
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84905643836
SN - 9781450328814
T3 - GECCO 2014 - Companion Publication of the 2014 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference
SP - 109
EP - 110
BT - GECCO 2014 - Companion Publication of the 2014 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 16th Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion, GECCO 2014 Companion
Y2 - 12 July 2014 through 16 July 2014
ER -