Autism online: A comparison of word usage in bloggers with and without autism spectrum disorders

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 463-466

  Newton, Taylor ^a   Kramer, Adam D I ^b   McIntosh, Daniel N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Autism spectrum disorders; Blogs; Comparative text analysis; Liwc unobtrusive methodology; Word usage

Indexed keywords

AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS; COMMUNICATION SKILLS; COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION; LIWC UNOBTRUSIVE METHODOLOGY; SOCIAL CONTEXT; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS; TEXT ANALYSIS; WORD USAGE;

COMMUNICATION; DISEASES; HUMAN ENGINEERING;

BLOGS;

EID: 84892469747     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1518701.1518775     Document Type: Conference Paper

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