Effect of a word prediction feature on user performance

AAC: Augmentative and Alternative Communication

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 155-168

  Koester, Heidi Horstmann ^a,b   Levine, Simon P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HOSPITALS   (United States)

Author keywords

Augmentative communication; Evaluation; Group designs; Rate enhancement; Word prediction

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; HANDICAPPED PERSONS; SENSORY PERCEPTION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

AUGMENTATIVE AND ALTERNATIVE COMMUNICATION (AAC); WORD PREDICTION SYSTEM;

COMPUTER KEYBOARD SUBSTITUTES (HANDICAPPED AID);

EID: 0030229986     PISSN: 07434618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07434619612331277608     Document Type: Article

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