Designing desirability in an augmentative and alternative communication device

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Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 135-145

  Allen, Jonathon ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC); Disability; Industrial design; Product semantics

Indexed keywords

EID: 31044454666     PISSN: 16155289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10209-005-0117-2     Document Type: Article

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