Empowering individuals with do-it-yourself assistive technology

ASSETS'11: Proceedings of the 13th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 11-18

  Hurst, Amy ^a   Tobias, Jasmine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

assistive technology; do it yourself; empowerment; human centered computing; online communities; personal scale manufacturing; rapid prototyping

Indexed keywords

ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY; DO-IT-YOURSELF; EMPOWERMENT; HUMAN-CENTERED COMPUTING; ONLINE COMMUNITIES;

ONLINE SYSTEMS; RAPID PROTOTYPING; TECHNOLOGY;

MANUFACTURE;

EID: 81855167445     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2049536.2049541     Document Type: Conference Paper

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