AAC Performance and Usability Issues: The Effect of AAC Technology on the Communicative Process

Assistive Technology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 45-57

  Higginbotham, D Jeffery ^a   Caves, Kevin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Augmentative and alternative communication; Conversation; Design; Grounding; Interaction; Joint action

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION AID; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE; REVIEW;

COMMUNICATION; COMMUNICATION AIDS FOR DISABLED; COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LANGUAGE;

EID: 0038314446     PISSN: 10400435     EISSN: 19493614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10400435.2002.10132054     Document Type: Article

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