Exploring the acceptability of google glass as an everyday assistive device for people with Parkinson's

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 2551-2554

  McNaney, Róisin ^a   Vines, John ^a   Roggen, Daniel ^b   Balaam, Madeline ^a   Zhang, Pengfei ^a   Poliakov, Ivan ^a   Olivier, Patrick ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Field trial; Google glass; Parkinson's disease; Qualitative

Indexed keywords

HUMAN ENGINEERING; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES;

ASSISTIVE DEVICES; EYEWEAR; FIELD TRIAL; PARKINSON'S DISEASE; QUALITATIVE; QUALITATIVE STUDY; VULNERABLE GROUPS;

GLASS;

EID: 84900422479     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2556288.2557092     Document Type: Conference Paper

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