{"id":209,"date":"2025-07-02T18:55:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T18:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpdev.acsu.buffalo.edu\/cadl\/?page_id=149"},"modified":"2025-07-03T21:56:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T21:56:49","slug":"project-converse","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/cadl\/project-converse\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Converse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The overall goal of the project is to develop a set of effective conversational technologies and to successfully transfer these innovations into the AAC technology market, incorporating AI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Engelke Family Foundation has awarded generous funding across five years for <em>Project Converse<\/em> to <a href=\"https:\/\/arts-sciences.buffalo.edu\/cds\/people\/academicfaculty\/cdsjeff.html\">Jeff Higginbotham<\/a> (PI) of the Communication and Assistive Device Laboratory, Department of Communicative Disorders and Sciences, University at Buffalo and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/people\/karen-erickson\/\">Karen Erickson<\/a> (co-PI) and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/people\/lori-geist\/\"> Lori Geist<\/a> (co-PI) of the Center for Literacy &amp; Disability Studies, Department of Allied Health Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Learn more at our <a href=\"https:\/\/project-converseaac.com\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/project-converseaac.com\/\">Project Converse Website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/cadl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/152\/2025\/07\/1A1A0169-scaled-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"a student participant uses an augmentative and alternative communication device while conversing with a research, sitting oppostie her\" class=\"wp-image-179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/cadl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/152\/2025\/07\/1A1A0169-scaled-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/cadl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/152\/2025\/07\/1A1A0169-scaled-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/cadl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/152\/2025\/07\/1A1A0169-scaled-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/cadl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/152\/2025\/07\/1A1A0169-scaled-1-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/cadl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/152\/2025\/07\/1A1A0169-scaled-1-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/cadl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/152\/2025\/07\/1A1A0169-scaled-1-624x416.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The overall goal of the project is to develop a set of effective conversational technologies and to successfully transfer these innovations into the AAC technology market, incorporating AI. The Engelke &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/cadl\/project-converse\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Project Converse<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":505,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-209","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/cadl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/cadl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/cadl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/cadl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/505"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/cadl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/cadl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/cadl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/209\/revisions\/333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/cadl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}