People with profound and multiple intellectual disabilities using symbols to control a computer: Exploration of user engagement and supporter facilitation

Assistive Technology

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 259-270

  Bunning, Karen ^a   Kwiatkowska, Gosia ^b   Weldin, Nick ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

computer access; engagement; profound intellectual disability; symbols; web cam

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION LEVEL; COMPUTER ACCESS; COMPUTER-BASED ACTIVITIES; DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; ENGAGEMENT; INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY; MANN-WHITNEY; NON-PARAMETRIC; USER DATA; USER ENGAGEMENT; WEB-CAM;

CODES (SYMBOLS); HUMAN REHABILITATION EQUIPMENT;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 84867463573     PISSN: 10400435     EISSN: 19493614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10400435.2012.659832     Document Type: Article

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