Machine Learning Opens Up New Ways to Help Disabled People
From: MIT Technology Review - 03/23/2017
By: Tom Simonite

Software that can understand images, sounds, and language is being used to
help people with disabilities such as deafness and autism in new ways.

IBM and other companies are developing and launching machine-learning
technologies and applications to enhance the experience of disabled persons.
For example, IBM researchers are using language-processing software developed
under the company's Watson project to support Content Clarifier, a tool
designed to help cognitively- or intellectually-challenged people. It can
substitute figures of speech such as "raining cats and dogs" with plainer
terms, and shorten or break up long sentences with multiple clauses and
indirect language. IBM researcher Will Scott says his company is in
discussions with a organization that helps autistic high school students
migrate to college life about testing Content Clarifier to help people
comprehend educational and administrative documents. Tackling the reliability
challenge of such machine-learning tools is essential if they are to be
successful, according to Artist with Autism participant Austin Lubetkin, who
has prototyped a navigation app using image-recognition technology to offer
directions in the form of landmarks.

Read the entire article at:
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603899/machine-learning-opens-up-new-ways-to-help-disabled-people

Links:
Visualizing Sound Effects
https://youtube-eng.googleblog.com/2017/03/visualizing-sound-effects.html

Facebook App Can Answer Basic Questions about What's in Photos
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/543131/facebook-app-can-answer-basic-questions-about-whats-in-photos

Able to Include
http://able-to-include.com

Artists with Autism
http://artistswithautismunite.webs.com

Spectrum Navigator is a GPS app that helps people navigate by landmark
http://blog.clarifai.com/clarifai-featured-hack-spectrum-navigator-is-a-gps-app-that-helps-people-navigate-by-landmark