Experiences on haptic interfaces for visually impaired young children

ICMI'04 - Sixth International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 281-288

  Patomäki, Saija ^a   Raisamo, Roope ^a   Salo, Jouni ^a   Pasto, Virpi ^a   Hippula, Arto ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Blind children; Haptic environment; Haptic feedback; Learning; Phantom; Visually impaired children

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; FEEDBACK; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

BLIND CHILDREN; HAPTIC ENVIRONMENT; HAPTIC FEEDBACK; PHANTOM; VISUALLY IMPAIRED CHILDREN;

HAPTIC INTERFACES;

EID: 14944368946     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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