Hands-free vision-based interface for computer accessibility

Journal of Network and Computer Applications

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 357-374

  Varona, Javier ^a   Manresa Yee, Cristina ^a   Perales, Francisco J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Human computer interaction; Multimodal interfaces

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMMUNICATION; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; COMPUTER VISION; COMPUTERS; DATA FUSION; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); SENSOR DATA FUSION; TECHNOLOGY; USER INTERFACES;

COMPUTER INTERACTIONS; COMPUTER VISION ALGORITHMS; DISABLED PEOPLE; DISABLED USERS; ELSEVIER (CO); INFORMATION SOCIETY; MOTOR IMPAIRMENTS; NEW TECHNOLOGIES; REAL TIME; ROBUST RECOGNITION; VISION-BASED; VISION-BASED USER INTERFACE;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 47949124635     PISSN: 10848045     EISSN: 10958592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnca.2008.03.003     Document Type: Article

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