Desperately seeking simplicity: How young adults with cognitive disabilities and their families adopt assistive technologies

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 1143-1152

  Dawe, Melissa ^a  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

Author keywords

Assistive technology; Cognitive disabilities; Design; Ethnography; Technology adoption

Indexed keywords

ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY; COGNITIVE DISABILITIES; ETHNOGRAPHY; TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; HANDICAPPED PERSONS; HEALTH CARE;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

EID: 33745846477     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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