ACES: Promoting empathy towards aphasia through language distortion emulation software

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 609-618

  Hailpern, Joshua ^a   Danilevsky, Marina ^a   Harris, Andrew ^a   Karahalios, Karrie ^a   Dell, Gary ^b   Hengst, Julie ^b  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Aphasia; Assistive technology; Disabilities; Empathy; Emulation software; Language; Speech

Indexed keywords

APHASIA; ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY; COMMUNICATION DISORDERS; DISABILITY; EMPATHY; EMULATION SOFTWARE; LANGUAGE; PILOT STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; THINKING PROCESS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 79958178723     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1978942.1979029     Document Type: Conference Paper

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