Tactile graphics revised: The novel BrailleDis 9000 pin-matrix device with multitouch input

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5105 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 835-842

  Völkel, Thorsten ^a   Weber, Gerhard ^a   Baumann, Ulrich ^b  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b Metec AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Assistive technology; Pin matrix device; Tactile graphics; Visually impaired

Indexed keywords

ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY; BRAILLE DISPLAYS; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; MULTI-MODAL INTERACTIONS; MULTIPLE POINTS; PIN-MATRIX DEVICE; SPECIAL NEEDS; TACTILE GRAPHICS; VISUALLY IMPAIRED;

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING;

MATRIX ALGEBRA;

EID: 50249150898     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-70540-6_124     Document Type: Conference Paper

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