Involving older people with dementia and their carers in designing computer based support systems: Some methodological considerations

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Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 49-58

  Astell, Arlene ^a   Alm, Norman ^b   Gowans, Gary ^b   Ellis, Maggie ^a   Dye, Richard ^b   Vaughan, Phillip ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dementia; Evaluation; Iterative design; Requirements gathering; User centred design

Indexed keywords

DESIGN;

DEMENTIA; EVALUATION; ITERATIVE DESIGN; REQUIREMENTS GATHERING; USER CENTRED DESIGN;

MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS;

EID: 63649096614     PISSN: 16155289     EISSN: 16155297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10209-008-0129-9     Document Type: Article

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