Abstract
In October 2005, the IBM Human Ability and Accessibility Center and T.J. Watson Research Center hosted a symposium on “cognitive and learning difficulties and how they affect access to IT systems”. The central premise of the symposium was the recognition that cognitive and learning difficulties have a profound impact on a person’s ability to interact with information technology (IT) systems, but that little support is currently being offered by those systems. By bringing together internationally renowned experts from a variety of different, but complementary, research fields, the symposium aimed to provide a complete overview of the issues related to this topic. This paper summarises the discussions and findings of the symposium.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 329-339 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Journal | Universal Access in the Information Society |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Apr 2007 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Cognitive impairment
- Learning difficulties
- Design
- Cognitive models