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A digital library of conversational expressions: helping profoundly disabled users communicate

Published:14 July 2002Publication History

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Digital libraries are for everyone. This paper describes the development of a digital library for a user who has a profound physical disability that means she cannot communicate verbally, and cannot use conventional communication tools.

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        JCDL '02: Proceedings of the 2nd ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
        July 2002
        448 pages
        ISBN:1581135130
        DOI:10.1145/544220

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        • Published: 14 July 2002

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        JCDL '02 Paper Acceptance Rate69of240submissions,29%Overall Acceptance Rate415of1,482submissions,28%

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