MEA: Designing a multimodal email support tool for persons with aphasia

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 1219-1224

  Al Mahmud, Abdullah ^a   Van De Ven, Rick ^b   Slats, Laurens ^b   Van Der Veen, Esther ^b   Petkov, Zlati ^b   Mubin, Omar ^c  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aphasia; Assistive technology; Inclusive design

Indexed keywords

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

APHASIA; ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY; EMAIL MESSAGES; FREE-HAND DRAWING; INCLUSIVE DESIGN; MULTI-MODAL; SUPPORT TOOL; USER STUDY;

ELECTRONIC MAIL;

EID: 84900542416     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2559206.2581228     Document Type: Conference Paper

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