User Modelling for Error Recovery:
A Spelling Checker for Dyslexic Users
Work Description
Most of this text was written quite a long time ago now. Probably the most
up to date report on my work is my paper at
UM97 which was in June 1997.
I work in the University of York, where I am studying for a DPhil in
Computer Science. Being part of the
Human
Computer Interaction group,
and more partcularly the
Alternative
Interfaces Group, I work on
improving computer use for disabled people. My chosen field is Dyslexia;
working with people with high intelligence but poor reading and writing
abilities. I hope to build a prosthesis which will identify and correct
the mistakes made by an older dyslexic user in writing, and will
therefore help them to write more correct text. That is to say, a
spelling checker specially for dyslexic people.
I will naturally have to include information in forms not normally
present in a word-processor, such as speech, and will crucially
have to build a functional model of writing which can correctly
predict their errors. I will also have to support their deficiencies
in reading and memory with appropriate design, another key
feature of Human Computer Interaction.
I went to the British Dyslexia Association's conference in
Nottingham, Computers and Dyslexia. And I've got a paper in to a workshop
at IJCAI95 in Montreal. (The workshop
is Developing AI Applications for Disabled Persons)
Other peoples' projects
19/3/01
This page has been taken over from Roger Spooner, and is now maintained
by Alistair Edwards