Investigating the use of circles in social networks to support independence of individuals with autism

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 3207-3216

  Hong, Hwajung ^a   Yarosh, Svetlana ^b   Kim, Jennifer G ^c   Abowd, Gregory D ^a   Arriaga, Rosa I ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Autism; Independence; Social networks; Social support

Indexed keywords

AUTISM; EXPLORATORY STUDIES; EXTENDED NETWORKS; INDEPENDENCE; SOCIAL NETWORK SERVICE (SNS); SOCIAL NETWORKING SERVICES; SOCIAL NETWORKS; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

DISEASES; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN ENGINEERING;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84877987698     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2470654.2466439     Document Type: Conference Paper

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