Digital speech therapy for the aphasia patients: Challenges, opportunities and solutions

Oche A Egaji; Ikram Asghar; Mark Griffiths; William Warren

doi:10.1145/3357419.3357449

Digital speech therapy for the aphasia patients: Challenges, opportunities and solutions

Oche A Egaji, Ikram Asghar, Mark Griffiths, William Warren

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This paper outlines the potential challenges of adopting digital solutions for treating patients with aphasia. Current research has focused on the use of non-immersive Virtual Reality (VR) approach to therapy, and the outcome of their evaluation with people with aphasia has been promising. There is currently no research on the effect of using fully immersive VR technology as a digital therapy solution for people with aphasia. This paper aims to fill that gap by proposing the integration of Immersive VR with an appropriate Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered voice recognition model in creating a digital therapy solution for people with aphasia. The authors hoped that this application will ease the workload of the speech therapist and will enhance the long-term recovery process for people with aphasia.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Information Communication and Management
Publisher	ACM
Pages	85-88
ISBN (Print)	9781450371889
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3357419.3357449
Publication status	Published - 23 Aug 2019
Externally published	Yes
Event	9th International Conference on Information Communication and Management - Prague, Czech Republic Duration: 23 Aug 2019 → 26 Aug 2019 Conference number: 9th http://www.icicm.org/icicm2019.html

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Name	International Conference Proceedings Series
Publisher	ACM

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Conference	9th International Conference on Information Communication and Management
Abbreviated title	ICICM 2019
Country/Territory	Czech Republic
City	Prague
Period	23/08/19 → 26/08/19
Internet address	http://www.icicm.org/icicm2019.html

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Egaji, OA, Asghar, I, Griffiths, M & Warren, W 2019, Digital speech therapy for the aphasia patients: Challenges, opportunities and solutions. in Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Information Communication and Management. International Conference Proceedings Series, ACM, pp. 85-88, 9th International Conference on Information Communication and Management, Prague, Czech Republic, 23/08/19. https://doi.org/10.1145/3357419.3357449

Digital speech therapy for the aphasia patients: Challenges, opportunities and solutions. / Egaji, Oche A; Asghar, Ikram; Griffiths, Mark et al.
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Information Communication and Management. ACM, 2019. p. 85-88 (International Conference Proceedings Series).

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