Using haptic cues to aid nonvisual structure recognition

ACM Transactions on Applied Perception

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Jay, Caroline ^a   Stevens, Robert ^a   Hubbold, Roger ^a   Glencross, Mashhuda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Haptic perception; Multimodal cues; Visual disability

Indexed keywords

3-D STRUCTURES; ACCESSIBILITY; AUDITORY CUES; AUDITORY FEEDBACK; DISABLED USERS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FORCE FIELDS; GRAPH STRUCTURES; HAPTIC CUES; HAPTIC FEEDBACKS; HAPTIC PERCEPTION; HAPTICS; MULTIMODAL CUES; SCREEN READERS; SPATIAL CONFIGURATIONS; SPATIAL LAYOUT; SPEED UPS; STRUCTURE RECOGNITION; VISUAL DISABILITY; VISUAL PRESENTATIONS;

GRAPH THEORY; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

HAPTIC INTERFACES;

EID: 50249137248     PISSN: 15443558     EISSN: 15443965     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1279920.1279922     Document Type: Article

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