A context-sensitive device to help people with autism cope with anxiety

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1201-1206

  Mohammedali, Marziya ^a   Adams, Brett ^a   Phung, Dinh ^a   Venkatesh, Svetha ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Design; Experimentation; Human factors

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; HUMAN ENGINEERING;

AMBIENT NOISE; ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY; AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS; CONTEXT-SENSITIVE; DEVICE RESPONSE; EXPERIMENTATION; SENSITIVE DEVICES; SMART-PHONE APPLICATIONS; TOUCH INTERFACES; USER CONTEXT;

ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 79957969636     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1979742.1979748     Document Type: Conference Paper

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