HCI for Children with Disabilities

In this book the authors present an HCI principle-based approach for developing applications to assist children with disabilities. Design knowledge related to developing complex solutions for this audience is explained from an interaction design point of

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Josefina Guerrero-Garcia Juan Manuel González-Calleros Jaime Muñoz-Arteaga César A. Collazos Editors

HCI for Children with Disabilities

Human–Computer Interaction Series Editors-in-chief Desney Tan Microsoft Research, Redmond, Washington, USA Jean Vanderdonckt Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium

More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/6033

Josefina Guerrero-Garcia Juan Manuel González-Calleros Jaime Muñoz-Arteaga César A. Collazos •

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HCI for Children with Disabilities

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Editors Josefina Guerrero-Garcia Computer Science Faculty Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla Puebla Mexico Juan Manuel González-Calleros Computer Science Faculty Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla Puebla Mexico

Jaime Muñoz-Arteaga Departamento de Ciencias de la Computación Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes Aguascalientes Mexico César A. Collazos Departamento de Sistemas Universidad del Cauca Popayán Colombia

ISSN 1571-5035 Human–Computer Interaction Series ISBN 978-3-319-55665-9 ISBN 978-3-319-55666-6 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-55666-6

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Foreword

Nowadays people are paying more attention to issues related to disability. Such attention comes from several disciplines that focus on disabled people, with the aim of producing a better quality of life. Unfortunately, this interest often appears to be only theoretical, which is insufficient considering the high incidence of disability around the world1, as well as the urgent need to sensitize the population about it. Hence, i