Understanding mobile phone requirements for young adults with cognitive disabilities

ASSETS'07: Proceedings of the Ninth International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 179-186

  Dawe, Melissa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Assistive technology; Cognitive disabilities; Design requirements; Ethnography; Mobile phones; Semi structured interviews

Indexed keywords

ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY; COGNITIVE DISABILITIES; DESIGN REQUIREMENTS; SEMI-STRUCTURED INTERVIEWS;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; HANDICAPPED PERSONS; REMOTE CONTROL;

MOBILE PHONES;

EID: 42149120768     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1296843.1296874     Document Type: Conference Paper

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