Evaluation of "Speech System" and "Skill": An Interaction Paradigm for Speech Therapy

Vita Barletta, Miriana Calvano, Antonio Curci, Alessandro Pagano, Antonio Piccinno

2024

Abstract

Speech therapy is the medical field in which speech impairments are treated. They concern the inability of individuals to adequately enunciate words, construct, elaborate and appropriate sentences when speaking, and overall lack linguistic skills. Although speech impairments can emerge throughout different stages of life, the most common period of time in which they are encountered is childhood. The professionals in this medical field use to treat these impairments with the employment of therapies that are carried out over an extended period of time. This research work aims at proposing and evaluating through a user study a new interactive paradigm that involves ”Speech System”, a web-application, and ”Skill”, a skill for Amazon Alexa. The objective consists in determining the practical feasibility of the solution and investigate the consequences that the use of technology brings to the world of speech therapy. The advantages and disadvantages of the interactive paradigm in question are explored and discussed to define the direction of the next steps in this field.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Barletta V., Calvano M., Curci A., Pagano A. and Piccinno A. (2024). Evaluation of "Speech System" and "Skill": An Interaction Paradigm for Speech Therapy. In Proceedings of the 17th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - Volume 2: HEALTHINF; ISBN 978-989-758-688-0, SciTePress, pages 568-576. DOI: 10.5220/0012416700003657

in Bibtex Style

@conference{healthinf24,
author={Vita Barletta and Miriana Calvano and Antonio Curci and Alessandro Pagano and Antonio Piccinno},
title={Evaluation of "Speech System" and "Skill": An Interaction Paradigm for Speech Therapy},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 17th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - Volume 2: HEALTHINF},
year={2024},
pages={568-576},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0012416700003657},
isbn={978-989-758-688-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 17th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - Volume 2: HEALTHINF
TI - Evaluation of "Speech System" and "Skill": An Interaction Paradigm for Speech Therapy
SN - 978-989-758-688-0
AU - Barletta V.
AU - Calvano M.
AU - Curci A.
AU - Pagano A.
AU - Piccinno A.
PY - 2024
SP - 568
EP - 576
DO - 10.5220/0012416700003657
PB - SciTePress