The ethnographically informed participatory design of a PDA application to support communication

ASSETS 2004 - The Sixth International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 153-160

  Davies, Rhian ^a   Marcella, Skip ^b   McGrenere, Joanna ^a   Purves, Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Aphasia; Assistive technology; Augmentative alternative communication; Cognitive disabilities; Ethnography; Handheld devices; Participatory design; Universal usability

Indexed keywords

APHASIA; ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY; AUGMENTATIVE ALTERNATIVE COMMUNICATION; COGNITIVE DISABILITIES; ETHNOGRAPHY; HANDHELD DEVICES; PARTICIPATORY DESIGN; UNIVERSAL USABILITY;

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; HAND HELD COMPUTERS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING; USER INTERFACES;

PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANTS;

EID: 15544383407     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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