TAJODA: Proposed tactile and jog dial interface for the blind

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

Volumn E87-D, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1405-1414

  Asakawa, Chieko ^a   Takagi, Hironobu ^a   Ino, Shuichi ^b   Ifukube, Tohru ^b  

^a IBM JAPAN LTD   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Blind usability; Speech interfaces; Tactile interfaces

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); LINGUISTICS; SPEECH CODING; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; VISION;

ACCESSIBILITY; BLIND USABILITIES; SPEECH INTERFACES;

HAPTIC INTERFACES;

EID: 3042684858     PISSN: 09168532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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