Paper Info
Title
Enhancing social connections through automatically-generated online social network messages
Abstract
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.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1145/2049536.2049587
ASSETS
Keywords
Field
DocType
alternative communication software,social network,social isolation,social connection,social networking connection,social network message,daily activity,complexity issue,automatically-generated online social network,assistive technology,online social network,certain physical disability
World Wide Web,Social isolation,Social network,Activities of daily living,Social web,Computer science,Online participation,Social computing,Multimedia,Loneliness,Augmentative and alternative communication
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.42
1
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
John J. Magee19712.08
Christopher Kwan2183.14
Margrit Betke387579.80
Fletcher Hietpas420.42