Achieving dialogue with children with severe autism in an adaptive multisensory interaction: The "MEDIATE" project

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 734-742

  Parés, Narcís ^a   Masri, Paul ^b   Van Wolferen, Gerard ^c,d   Creed, Chris ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^c HKU   (Netherlands)

^d HKU UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Artificial; Assistive technologies for persons with disabilities; Augmented; Interaction styles; Metadata; Psychology; Virtual realities

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL; ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGIES FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES; AUGMENTED; INTERACTION STYLES;

METADATA; PSYCHOLOGY COMPUTING; SENSORY PERCEPTION; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISUALIZATION;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

ARTICLE; AUTISM; CHILD; COMMUNICATION AID; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAN MACHINE INTERACTION; METHODOLOGY; MULTIMEDIA; ONLINE SYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSDUCER;

AUTISTIC DISORDER; CHILD; COMMUNICATION AIDS FOR DISABLED; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DATA DISPLAY; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAN-MACHINE SYSTEMS; MULTIMEDIA; ONLINE SYSTEMS; SENSATION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TRANSDUCERS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 27644439043     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2005.88     Document Type: Article

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