A study and development of the auditory route map providing system for the visually impaired

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4061 LNCS, Issue , 2006, Pages 1265-1272

  Ienaga, Takafumi ^a   Matsumoto, Michito ^a   Shibata, Masahiro ^a   Toyoda, Nobuyuki ^b   Kimura, Youko ^b   Gotoh, Hiroshi ^b   Yasukouchi, Takehito ^b  

^a Fukuoka SRP Center   (Japan)

^b Fukuoka Welfare Cener for Persons with Disabilities   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INTERNET; VISUAL COMMUNICATION; WEBSITES;

AUDITORY ROUTE MAPS; PROTOTYPE SYSTEMS;

HANDICAPPED PERSONS;

EID: 33748520234     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11788713_182     Document Type: Conference Paper

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