Question

23. Read the text and choose the CORRECT alternative.

SMARTPHONE APP HELPS ALS SUFFERERS SPEAK WITH THEIR EYES
BY ANTHONY CUTHBERTSON

Microsoft has developed a new smartphone app that interprets eye signals and translates them into letters, allowing
people with motor neurone disease to communicate with others from a phone. The GazeSpeak app combines a
smartphone’s camera with artificial intelligence to recognize eye movements in real time and convert them into letters,
words and sentences. For people suffering from ALS, also known as motor neurone disease, eye movement can be the
only way they are able to communicate. “Current eye-tracking input systems for people with ALS or other motor
impairments are expensive, not robust under sunlight, and require frequent re-calibration and substantial, relatively
immobile setups,” said Xiaoyi Zhang, a researcher at Microsoft who developed the technology. “To mitigate the
drawbacks…we created GazeSpeak, an eye-gesture communication system that runs on a smartphone, and is
designed to be low-cost, robust, portable and easy to learn.” The app is used by the listener by pointing their
smartphone at the speaker. A chart that can be stuck to the back of the smartphone is then used by the speaker to
determine which eye movements to make in order to communicate. The sticker shows four grids of letters, which each
correspond to a different eye movement. By looking up, down, left or right, the speaker selects which grids the letters
they want belong to. The artificial intelligence algorithm is then able to predict the word or sentence they are trying to
say. Zhang’s research, Smartphone-Based Gaze Gesture Communication for People with Motor Disabilities, is set to
be presented at the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems in May.

Fonte: Available at: http://www.newsweek.com/smartphone-app-helps-als-sufferers-speak-their-eyes-559051.Accessed on:
February 2017.
I. A new app for smartphones that interprets eye signals and transforms them in letters has been developed by
Microsoft.
II. This new app will help all neurological deficient people.
III. GazeSpeak is low-cost, strong, portable and easy learning.
IV. The artificial intelligence algorithm is able to guess all words that the person wants to say.
V. The speaker points his smartphone to the listener to communicate.
A) Only I and II are correct.
B) Only I and IV are correct.
C) Only I and V are correct.
D) Only II and III are correct.
E) Only I and III are correct.

Answer 1

Resposta:

E

Explicação:

E) Only I and III are correct