Designing interactive life story multimedia for a family affected by Alzheimer's disease: A case study

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1300-1303

  Cohene, Tira ^a   Baecker, Ron ^a   Marziali, Elsa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Design methods; Intervention; Life stories; Multimedia; Reminiscence; User centered design

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE; DESIGN METHOD; INTERVENTION; LIFE STORIES; MULTIMEDIA; REMINISCENCE; USER CENTERED DESIGNS;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS;

DESIGN;

EID: 27744503087     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1056808.1056901     Document Type: Conference Paper

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