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Helping aphasic people process online information

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Siobhan Devlin,

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Assets '06: Proceedings of the 8th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility

Pages 225 - 226

https://doi.org/10.1145/1168987.1169027

Published: 23 October 2006 Publication History

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In this paper, we describe the HAPPI (Helping Aphasic People Process Information) project which aims to develop web based systems to help Aphasic people gain access to web based information such as online news stories. It does this by simplifying the language and providing alternative means to help jog users' memories and hence improve their comprehension of the online material.

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Helping aphasic people process online information
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing profession
      1. Assistive technologies
  2. User characteristics
    1. People with disabilities

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DOI:10.1145/1168987

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