Title:	AN ADAPTATIVE MODEL TO SUPPORT CHANGES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF COMMUNICATIONAL AUGMENTATIVE SYSTEMS*
Author(s):	N. Medina , M.l. Rodríguez , M.v. Hurtado , L. García-cabrera
ISBN:	972-99353-6-X
Editors:	Nuno Guimarães and Pedro Isaías
Year:	2005
Edition:	1
Keywords:	Communication Systems, Adaptive Hypermedia, Interaction model, Ontology.
Type:	Full Paper
First Page:	170
Last Page:	177
Language:	English
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Paper Abstract:	One of the most important problems in the development of communicational augmentative systems is that they lack mechanisms to support their necessary adaptation and evolution. The objective of these systems is to help individuals with temporal or permanent communication problems to communicate, and we therefore expect them to be able to change according to the progress obtained and to the new demands of each user. In this paper, we propose a new way of conceiving their development which suitably and effectively solves some of the limitations of current systems. The main contributions are the use of an ontological model to define the conceptual worlds and the modeling of the user’s interaction by means of a formal language that guarantees usability, so the knowledge model and the interaction model (through navigation) become an adaptive hypermedia system. This system allows the representation and control of communication with the environment and serves as a support for the generation of different templates and navigation models which are available using a PDA.
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