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Title: | Developing and evaluating a pictogram-based instant messaging service for individuals with cognitive disabilities |
Author: | Tuset-Peiro, Pere Megias, David López Gil, Juan Miguel |
Others: | Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) Universidad del País Vasco |
Citation: | Tuset-Peiró, P., López, J.M. & Megías, D. Developing and evaluating a pictogram-based Instant Messaging service for individuals with cognitive disabilities. Interacting with Computers. |
Abstract: | Information and communication technologies pose accessibility problems to people with disabilities because its design fails to take into account their communication and usability requirements. The impossibility to access the services provided by these technologies creates a situation of exclusion that reduces the self-sufficiency of disabled individuals and causes social isolation, which in turn diminishes their overall quality of life. Considering the importance of these technologies and services in our society, we have developed a pictogram-based Instant Messaging service for individuals with cognitive disabilities who have reading and writing problems. Along the paper we introduce and discuss the User Centred Design methodology that we have used to develop and evaluate the pictogram-based Instant Messaging service and client with individuals with cognitive disabilities taking into account their communication and usability requirements. From the results obtained in the evaluation process we can state that individuals with cognitive disabilities have been able to use the pictogram-based Instant Messaging service and client to communicate with their relatives and acquaintances, thus serving as a tool to help reducing their social and digital exclusion situation. |
Keywords: | augmentative and alternative communication cognitive disabilities human-computer interaction instant messaging services user centered design |
Document type: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Version: | info:eu-repo/semantics/submittedVersion |
Issue Date: | 19-Jun-2011 |
Publication license: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ |
Appears in Collections: | Articles cientÍfics Articles |
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