When the designer becomes the user: Designing a system for therapists by becoming a therapist

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 2071-2078

  Kientz, Julie A ^a   Abowd, Gregory D ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Autism; Design; Health; Participant observation

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; HUMAN ENGINEERING; PROCESS ENGINEERING;

AUTISM; CASE STUDIES; CHILDREN WITH AUTISMS; DESIGN PROCESSES; DO-MAINS; PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION; TECHNOLOGY SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 57049185778     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1358628.1358639     Document Type: Conference Paper

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