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Using Personas to Support Augmentative Alternative Communication Device Design: A Validation and Evaluation Study
- Source :
- International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction. 34:84-97
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2017.
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Abstract
- Interactive computing devices are increasingly being deployed to support individuals in improving and managing health, aging in place, and as assistive devices for those with functional limitations. Augmentative Alternative Communication (AAC) aids are devices that help individuals with speech impairments communicate. They are typically prescribed by clinicians (speech–language pathologists) based on a specific individual’s physical needs and disease classification. While personas have been used in the design of other consumer technologies, they have not been frequently deployed in the design of clinically oriented technologies, including AAC devices. Instead, a clinical/rehabilitation engineering approach to AAC design is typically used, focusing on the physical and symptomatic needs of a diverse group of individuals, and involving the consumer on the level of making feature recommendations and/or testing the technology near the end of the design and production process. To address this challenge,...
- Subjects :
- 030506 rehabilitation
Aging in place
Computer science
05 social sciences
Disease classification
Human Factors and Ergonomics
Persona
Communication device
Computer Science Applications
Rehabilitation engineering
Human-Computer Interaction
03 medical and health sciences
Human–computer interaction
ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDSOCIETY
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
0305 other medical science
050107 human factors
Augmentative
Simulation
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15327590 and 10447318
- Volume :
- 34
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........e5805fb9aa2533dd577160857e395aca