Creating accessible science museums with user-activated environmental audio beacons (ping!)

Assistive Technology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 133-143

  Landau, Steven ^a   Wiener, William ^b,e   Naghshineh, Koorosh ^c   Giusti, Ellen ^d  

^a Touch Graphics Incorporated   (United States)

^b WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Western Michigan University   (United States)

^d DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^e MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Audio description; Blind; Computer telephony; Museum; Visually impaired; Way finding

Indexed keywords

AUDIO SYSTEMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); MOBILITY AIDS FOR BLIND PERSONS; RESEARCH; VISION AIDS;

ACCESSIBILITY; AUDIO DESCRIPTION; BLIND; COMPUTER TELEPHONY; VISUALLY IMPAIRED; WAY-FINDING;

MUSEUMS;

AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DEVICE; EXPERIENCE; FOLLOW UP; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; HUMAN; INFORMATION CENTER; RESEARCH; REVIEW; SCIENCE; TELEPHONE; TRAVEL; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ARCHITECTURAL ACCESSIBILITY; AUDIOVISUAL AIDS; COMMUNICATION AIDS FOR DISABLED; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MODELS, STRUCTURAL; MUSEUMS; SCIENCE; SPEECH RECOGNITION SOFTWARE; VISUALLY IMPAIRED PERSONS;

EID: 27844554748     PISSN: 10400435     EISSN: 19493614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10400435.2005.10132103     Document Type: Article

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