Dytective Named Semi-Finalist in UAE AI & Robotics Award for Good
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A team of HCII researchers has been named semi-finalists for the United Arab Emirates AI and Robotics Award for Good. Launched in 2015, the award aims to encourage research and applications of innovative solutions in artificial intelligence and robotics to meet existing challenges in the categories of health, education and social services. Winners earn a cash prize for their research.
HCII Associate Professor Jeff Bigham and post-doc Luz Rello will join collaborator Abdullah Ali from the University of Maryland Feb. 5–6 in Dubai Internet City to present their work on "Dytective: A Game to Detect Dyslexia at Scale." More than 10 percent of the population has dyslexia, but current diagnosis techniques are expensive and often only initiated once a child has been failing in school for some time. Dytective uses machine learning models to recognize patterns associated with dyslexia when a child plays the game for just 15 minutes. The team hopes to make dyslexia detection easily accessible to everyone, no matter the country or income. Dytective, which won the Best Demonstration Award at ASSETS 2015, is available in Spanish, but the team plans to expand it to English, German and Arabic. "Our overall aim is to reach the whole world's population," the team wrote.
Dytective is one of 11 semi-finalists in the award's "International" category. They'll compete on Friday, Feb. 5, and winners from the semi-final round will move on to the finals on Saturday, Feb. 6. Learn more on the UAE AI and Robotics Award for Good website.