The development and evaluation of performance-based functional assessment: A methodology for the measurement of physical capabilities

ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  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; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CURRENT PRACTICES; CURRENT RESEARCHES; DESCRIPTORS; FUNCTIONAL CAPABILITIES; GOLD STANDARDS; HCI; INDEPENDENT ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS; MOTOR IMPAIRMENTS; MULTIPLE OBSERVERS; PERFORMANCE-BASED ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL CAPABILITIES; PREDICTIVE MODELS; SELF-REPORTING; SYSTEM DESIGNERS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

DIAGNOSIS; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT;

RESEARCH;

EID: 69949094668     PISSN: 19367228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1530064.1530068     Document Type: Article

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