Supporting visually impaired children with software agents in a multimodal learning environment

Virtual Reality

Volumn 9, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 108-117

  Saarinen, Rami ^a   Järvi, Janne ^a   Raisamo, Roope ^a   Tuominen, Eva ^a   Kangassalo, Marjatta ^a   Peltola, Kari ^a   Salo, Jouni ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Auditory feedback; Haptics; Learning environments; Multimodal interaction; Software agent architecture; Visually impaired children

Indexed keywords

EID: 32044472321     PISSN: 13594338     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10055-005-0011-5     Document Type: Article

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