Computer Science

Automatically generating online social network messages to combat social isolation of people with disabilities

Document Type

Conference Paper

Abstract

We investigate the use of social networks for people with disabilities and their family and caregivers. Loneliness and isolation are problems people with limited communication abilities may experience. Online social networks may help overcome such communication barriers, but there are still many challenges. One challenge encountered by users of assistive technology is a learning curve not only of the user, but of family and caregivers. Our system automatically generates messages that would help answer the question "What did I do today?" and posts some of the user's daily activities with the software to online social networks. The users of our software would be able to post these messages to social networking websites to better enhance their communication with family and caregivers. We report qualitative feedback from a small preliminary user study. © 2013 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.

Publication Title

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Publication Date

2013

Volume

8010 LNCS

Issue

PART 2

First Page

684

Last Page

693

ISSN

0302-9743

ISBN

9783642391903

DOI

10.1007/978-3-642-39191-0_73

APA Citation

Magee, J. J., & Betke, M. (2013). Automatically generating online social network messages to combat social isolation of people with disabilities. In Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. User and Context Diversity: 7th International Conference, UAHCI 2013, Held as Part of HCI International 2013, Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 21-26, 2013, Proceedings, Part II 7 (pp. 684-693). Springer Berlin Heidelberg.

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