Interactive 3D sound hyperstories for blind children

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 318-325

  Lumbreras, Mauricio ^a   Sanchez, Jaime ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

3D sound; Audio interface; Audio based navigation; Blind children; Hyperstory; Space representation; Virtual acoustic environment

Indexed keywords

3D SOUND; AUDIO INTERFACES; AUDIO-BASED NAVIGATION; BLIND CHILDREN; HYPERSTORY; SPACE REPRESENTATION; VIRTUAL ACOUSTIC ENVIRONMENTS;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VIRTUAL REALITY; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; HANDICAPPED PERSONS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

HANDICAPPED PERSONS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

INTERACTIVE THREE-DIMENSIONAL HYPERSTORIES; VIRTUAL ACOUSTIC ENVIRONMENTS;

EID: 0032639510     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/302979.303101     Document Type: Conference Paper

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