Design, adoption, and assessment of a socio-technical environment supporting independence for persons with cognitive disabilities

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 597-606

  Carmien, Stefan Parry ^a   Fischer, Gerhard ^b  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FIT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Assistive technology; Cognitive disabilities; Distributed intelligence; End user development; Ethnographic methods; Independence; Meta design; Socio technical environments

Indexed keywords

ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY; COGNITIVE DISABILITIES; DISTRIBUTED INTELLIGENCE; END-USER DEVELOPMENT; ETHNOGRAPHIC METHODS; INDEPENDENCE; META-DESIGN; SOCIO-TECHNICAL ENVIRONMENTS;

HUMAN ENGINEERING; OPTICAL PROJECTORS;

HANDICAPPED PERSONS;

EID: 57649155427     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1357054.1357151     Document Type: Conference Paper

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