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Enhancing social connections through automatically-generated online social network messages

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Social isolation and loneliness are important challenges faced by people with certain physical disabilities. Technical and complexity issues may prevent some people from participating in online social networks that otherwise may address some of these issues. We propose to generate social network messages automatically from within assistive technology and augmentative and alternative communication software. These messages will help users post some of their daily activities with the software to online social networks. Based on our initial user studies, the inclusion of social networking connections may help improve engagement and interaction between users with disabilities and their friends, families and caregivers, and this increased interest can lead to the desire to use the assistive technology more fully.

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ASSETS '11: The proceedings of the 13th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility
October 2011
348 pages
ISBN:9781450309202
DOI:10.1145/2049536

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Published: 24 October 2011

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  • (2013)Estudo sobre o uso de tablets como ferramenta de suporte à interação de pessoas cegas com painéis digitaisProceedings of the 12th Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.5555/2577101.2577161(268-271)Online publication date: 8-Oct-2013
  • (2013)Automatically generating online social network messages to combat social isolation of people with disabilitiesProceedings of the 7th international conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction: user and context diversity - Volume 210.1007/978-3-642-39191-0_73(684-693)Online publication date: 21-Jul-2013

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