The audio abacus: Representing numerical values with nonspeech sound for the visually impaired

ASSETS 2004 - The Sixth International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 9-15

  Walker, Bruce N ^a   Lindsay, Jeffrey ^a   Godfrey, Justin ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory display; Data sonification; Value estimation; Visually impaired users

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; CONFORMAL MAPPING; GRAPH THEORY; HEADPHONES; LAPTOP COMPUTERS; RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE; STATISTICAL METHODS;

AUDIO ABACUS; AUDITORY DISPLAY; DATA SONIFICATION; VALUE ESTIMATION; VISUALLY IMPAIRED USERS;

JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE;

EID: 15544387807     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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