Access to mathematics for visually disabled students through multimodal interaction

Human-Computer Interaction

Volumn 12, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 47-92

  Stevens, Robert D ^a,b   Edwards, Alistair D N ^b   Harling, Philip A ^b  

^a MATHS Project   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MULTIMODAL INTERACTION; VISUALLY DISABLED STUDENTS;

ALGEBRA; COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; MOBILITY AIDS FOR BLIND PERSONS; MODAL ANALYSIS;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 0030659341     PISSN: 07370024     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15327051hci1201&2_3     Document Type: Article

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