GIS and people with visual impairments or blindness: exploring the potential for education, orientation, and navigation

Transactions in GIS

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 315-332

  Jacobson, R Dan ^a   Kitchin, Robert M ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DECISION MAKING; EYE PROTECTION; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

'CURRENT; DECISIONS MAKINGS; LEARNING ORIENTATION; NON VISUALS; ORIENTATION AND NAVIGATION; SPATIAL INFORMATIONS; SPATIAL LEARNING; SPATIAL RELATIONS; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VISUAL MEDIA;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

BLINDNESS; GIS; INFORMATION ACCESS; SPATIAL INFORMATION; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

EID: 0031350148     PISSN: 13611682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9671.1997.tb00060.x     Document Type: Article

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