Performance-based functional assessment: An algorithm for measuring physical capabilities

ASSETS'08: The 10th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 217-224

  Price, Kathleen J ^a   Sears, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Functional assessment; HCI; Physical capabilities

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; COMPUTER TECHNOLOGIES; CURRENT PRACTICES; DESCRIPTORS; FUNCTIONAL CAPABILITIES; HCI; MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS; PHYSICAL CAPABILITIES; SYSTEM DESIGNERS;

FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT;

DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 62949144637     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1414471.1414511     Document Type: Conference Paper

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