Towards developing assistive haptic feedback for visually impaired internet users

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1525-1534

  Kuber, Ravi ^a   Yu, Wai ^a   McAllister, Graham ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blind; Design methodology; Haptic; Participatory design; Scenarios; Web accessibility

Indexed keywords

FEEDBACK; HTML; WEBSITES;

DESIGN METHODOLOGY; PARTICIPATORY DESIGN; WEB ACCESSIBILITY;

HAPTIC INTERFACES;

EID: 35348853863     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1240624.1240854     Document Type: Conference Paper

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