Universal access to mobile telephony as a way to enhance the autonomy of elderly people

Proceedings of the 2001 EC/NSF Workshop on Universal Accessibility of Ubiquitous Computing: Providing for the Elderly, WUAUC 2001

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 93-99

  Abascal, Julio ^a   Civit, Antón ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Assistive technology; Mobile communications; Ubiquitous computing; Universal design

Indexed keywords

MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; TRANSPORTATION;

ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY; FUTURE APPLICATIONS; MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; MOBILE TECHNOLOGY; MOBILE TELEPHONY; PHYSICAL RESTRICTION; UBIQUITOUS COMMUNICATION; UNIVERSAL DESIGN;

UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

EID: 84994203190     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/564526.564551     Document Type: Conference Paper

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