What help do older people need? Constructing a functional design space of electronic assistive technology applications

ASSETS 2005 - The Seventh International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 4-11

  Maciuszek, Dennis ^a   Aberg, Johan ^a   Shahmehri, Nahid ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Design space; Field study; Interactive agents; Needs; Older adults; Software components; User involvement

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; PRODUCT DESIGN; SOCIAL ASPECTS; SOFTWARE AGENTS; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

DESIGN SPACE; ELECTRONIC ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY (EAT); FIELD STUDY; INTERACTIVE AGENTS; NEEDS; OLDER ADULTS; SOFTWARE COMPONENTS; USER INVOLVEMENT;

ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING;

EID: 32344447340     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1090785.1090790     Document Type: Conference Paper

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