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CHI
2005
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Participatory design of an orientation aid for amnesics
We present the participatory design and evaluation of an orientation aid for individuals who have anterograde amnesia. Our design team included six amnesics who have extreme diffi...
Mike Wu, Ronald Baecker, Brian Richards
OZCHI
2005
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Augmenting travel gossip: design for mobile communities
New communication technologies are changing the way travellers gossip and trade advice while on the road. This paper presents initial results from our studies of backpacker cultur...
Jeff Axup, Stephen Viller
CHI
2010
ACM
13 years 12 months ago
Catalyzing social support for breast cancer patients
Social support is a critical, yet underutilized resource when undergoing cancer care. Underutilization occurs in two conditions: (a) when patients fail to seek out information, ma...
Meredith M. Skeels, Kenton T. Unruh, Christopher P...
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 28 days ago
vSked: evaluation of a system to support classroom activities for children with autism
Visual schedules—the use of symbols to represent a series of activities or steps—have been successfully used by caregivers to help children with autism to understand, structur...
Sen H. Hirano, Michael T. Yeganyan, Gabriela Marcu...
ASSETS
2009
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
3DScan: an environment control system supporting persons with severe motor impairments
This proposal is about a poster dealing with a scanningbased software system, which aims at giving persons with severe motor impairments a means to interact with their immediate e...
Torsten Felzer, Stephan Rinderknecht