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Towards a Web Application to Support Communication in Mobility, Dedicated to People with Cerebral Palsy

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HCI in Mobility, Transport, and Automotive Systems (HCII 2025)

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This paper presents the ComMob Web application. It is an evolution of ComMob, which could only be operated by being installed locally on a computer or tablet. ComMob Web is a communication aid for users with athetoid cerebral palsy. It enables them to communicate in mobile situations, using pictograms to formulate sentences. The sentences are then expressed using a voice synthesizer. An initial feasibility study of a mobile localization adaptation is also presented. The aim of this study is to show that it is possible to formulate sentences based on pictograms proposed in relation to the user’s location.

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Acknowledgement

The authors would like to thank Kathia Marcal de Oliveira for her constant support and for her involvement in co-supervising the first author’s work. They thank also warmly the two reviewers for their numerous constructive remarks. Section 2.1 (State of the art) mentioned the use of artificial intelligence methods by people with cerebral palsy. In this regard, one of the authors with this profile used ChatGPT (OpenAI) as an editing support system to initiate the first draft of several paragraphs (in the Introduction and Background sections) based on the ideas the authors wished to express. The first drafts were then reworked in depth by all the authors, in line with the content of the articles listed as references. The main aim was to improve readability and style.

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Cauchois, N., Guerrier, Y., Kolski, C. (2025). Towards a Web Application to Support Communication in Mobility, Dedicated to People with Cerebral Palsy. In: Krömker, H. (eds) HCI in Mobility, Transport, and Automotive Systems. HCII 2025. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 15817. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-92689-1_10

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