2006/04/30 by Nestor Garay-Vitoria, Idoia Cearreta, Juan Miguel López +1 · 40 citations
Health Professions · Neuroscience · Psychology · #Affordance #Assistive Technology in Communication and Mobility #Assistive technology #Autism Spectrum Disorder Research #Cognitive psychology #Computer science #Human–computer interaction #Mediation #Psychology #Sociology #Tactile and Sensory Interactions
paper · doi:10.17011/ht/urn.2006159
published in Human Technology 2(1), 55-83 (University of Jyväskylä)
openalex publication_date 2006/04/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/07
The lack of attention towards affective communication in assistive technology and disability research can be potentially overcome thanks to the development of affective computing and affective mediation areas. This document describes the main impairments and disorders that may involve affective communication deficits. We also present several affective mediation technologies that are being applied or may be integrated in assistive technologies in order to improve affective communication for a range of disabilities. Finally, we describe our experience with Gestele, an application that incorporates multimodal elements of affective mediation for people with mobility impairments, as well as the results of an empirical study conducted to evaluate the application’s validity in communication via telephone.