What we talk about: Designing a context-aware communication tool for people with aphasia

ASSETS'12 - Proceedings of the 14th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 49-56

  Kane, Shaun K ^a   Linam Church, Barbara ^a   Althoff, Kyle ^a   McCall, Denise ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b SCALE Baltimore   (United States)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Aphasia; Augmented and alternative communication; Context aware computing; Participatory design

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; ALTERNATIVE COMMUNICATION; APHASIA; CONTEXT-AWARE COMPUTING; PARTICIPATORY DESIGN;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84869819410     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2384916.2384926     Document Type: Conference Paper

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