Tac-tiles: Multimodal pie charts for visually impaired users

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn 189, Issue , 2006, Pages 9-18

  Wall, Steven A ^a   Brewster, Stephen A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Blind; Graphs; Tactile; Tangible

Indexed keywords

AUDIO ACOUSTICS; DATA REDUCTION; FEEDBACK; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; RAPID PROTOTYPING; SPEECH ANALYSIS; TEACHING;

AUDIO FEEDBACK; MULTIMODAL PIE CHARTS; NON-SPEECH AUDIO CUES; TACTILE PIN-ARRAY;

GRAPHIC METHODS;

EID: 34547179398     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1182475.1182477     Document Type: Conference Paper

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