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The Android Bilingual Aphasia Test is an OpenSource experimentation software. It is currently being tested for suitability in three directions (which have similar data collection constraints).

• Clinical assessment tool with aphasia patients
  • Clinical References BAT
  • Theory Driven Experimental References
• Psycholinguistics morphological awareness tool with young children
• Field work natural and structured data collection with monolingual (usually older) informants in remote areas where battery life and no wifi are important considerations

The virtue of using Google’s Android platform gives researchers the possibility to integrate further video, audio and touch analysis using existing Open-Source Java libraries already developed by researchers in Pattern Recognition and Natural Language Processing. In addition, the Android’s business model (Shih et al 2010) allow hospitals and clinics to lock down devices and better control the security of patient data when integrating devices with existing EMR applications (Doukas et al 2010). The Android’s intent-based architecture allows for a plug-and-play connection and thus faster and more flexible integration with existing databases in data collection applications (Aanesen 2009) as well as other applications installed on the device.

Table of Contents Criteria References Experiment Audiences Participant Audiences Installing The Participant and Experimenter's Apps

Criteria

• Flexible
• Virtually paper
• Reliable
• Valid
• Intuitive Experiment Development
• Intuitive Participant Interface

References

• Clinical References
• Theory Driven Experimental References
• Video, audio text Analysis References

Experiment Audiences

• Clinicians
• Psycholinguistics researchers

Participant Audiences

• Aphasia patients
• Pre-k children
• Monolingual (usually older) informants who are often not comfortable with technology (ie a keyboard and mouse)

Installing The Participant and Experimenter's Apps

The Bilingual Aphasia Test App is currently in beta testing. You can install it following the instructions here: Installation