Bringing Haptics to second life for visually impaired people

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

Volumn 5024 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 896-905

  De Pascale, Maurizio ^a   Mulatto, Sara ^a   Prattichizzo, Domenico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Blind Vision; Blind Walk; Haptics; Second Life

Indexed keywords

3D ENVIRONMENTS; BLIND VISION; BLIND WALK; CLIENT APPLICATIONS; FORCE FEEDBACKS; HAPTIC DEVICES; HAPTIC TECHNOLOGIES; HAPTICS; IMMERSIVE; INPUT MODES; INTERACTIVE; MULTIUSER; ON-LINE; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; SECOND LIFE; SECOND LIVES; VIRTUAL WORLDS; VISUALLY IMPAIRED PEOPLES;

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EID: 54249092879     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-69057-3_112     Document Type: Conference Paper

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