Title
Messenger visual: a pictogram-based IM service to improve communications among disabled people
Abstract
This paper presents a pictogram-based instant messaging service that intends to bridge the social and digital gap of people with cognitive impairments. By means of using pictograms as the communication language and by tailoring down the interface to suit pictogram-based communication requirements, the service allows users to exchange real-time messages across the Internet to communicate with their relatives and acquaintances. Through our initial evaluation procedure with a group of eleven users with different types and degrees of cognitive impairments we show that a pictogram-based instant messaging service has a great potential to improve their communicative capabilities, as well as to enable their personal and social development.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1145/1868914.1869032
NordiCHI
Keywords
DocType
Citations 
pictogram-based communication requirement,cognitive impairment,digital gap,eleven user,communication language,pictogram-based instant messaging service,disabled people,social development,great potential,communicative capability,different type,pictogram-based im service,user centered design,real time
Conference
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.47
7
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Pere Tuset171.95
Pere Barberán250.89
Léonard Janer351.22
Esteve Buscà430.47
Sandra Delgado530.47
Nuria Vilà630.47