Using participatory activities with seniors to critique, build, and evaluate mobile phones

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

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 155-162

  Massimi, Michael ^a   Baecker, Ronald M ^a   Wu, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Elderly; Guidelines; Mobile devices; Mobile phones; Participatory design; Scenarios; Seniors; Usability

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; HANDICAPPED PERSONS; MOBILE DEVICES;

ACCESSIBILITY; GUIDELINES; PARTICIPATORY DESIGN; USABILITY;

MOBILE PHONES;

EID: 42149155506     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1296843.1296871     Document Type: Conference Paper

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