With increasing societal dependence on the Internet and new application areas emerging, the need for securing communications and identifying communication partners is expected to increase.
Subsequent to the onset of the acquired disability, many of these individuals are now unable to communicate with unfamiliar communication partners using their natural voice; may have difficulties in maintaining attention and focus over extended periods of time; and may have additional concomitant physical limitations.
Devices with voice output offer its user the advantage of more communicative power, including the ability to initiate conversation with communication partners who are at a distance.
Thirteen (of 20) participants were unable to produce speech, communicating though some combination of gestures, communication device, and/or human communication partners.
Communication partners, such as teachers and family members, can develop strategies to help those with dysarthria know what parts of their messages are understood and what parts need to be clarified.
The authors found that males reciprocate friendship requests from females faster and that females have more communication partners.
The communication network can be constructed from the call and SMS datasets containing the information on communication partners.
Moreover, locally computed information about the utility can be subscribed by relevant communication partners e.g. the CNC.
Those who take part in conversation act 'tactfully' if they anticipate the reaction of communication partners to their utterance, for instance, by avoiding embarrassing questions [50].
This is, e. g., necessary for teleconferences where the microphone signal is sent to far-end communication partners who would be disturbed when hearing their own voices.
LooCI components interact with the event bus via their provided and required interfaces, but have no knowledge about their communication partners.
