Design and evaluation of a tactile memory game for visually impaired children

Interacting with Computers

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 196-205

  Raisamo, Roope ^a   Patomäki, Saija ^a   Hasu, Matias ^a   Pasto, Virpi ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Low cost haptic devices; Multimodal user interfaces; Tactile feedback; Tactile games; Usability testing; Visually impaired children

Indexed keywords

FEEDBACK; HAPTIC INTERFACES; PROBLEM SOLVING;

MULTIMODAL USER INTERFACES; TACTILE FEEDBACK; USABILITY TESTING; VISUALLY IMPAIRED CHILDREN;

ANIMATION;

EID: 33846466497     PISSN: 09535438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intcom.2006.08.011     Document Type: Article

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