Tactile crescendos and sforzandos: Applying musical techniques to tactile icon design

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 610-615

  Brown, Lorna M ^a   Brewster, Stephen A ^a   Purchase, Helen C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Non visual interaction; Tactile icons; Tactons

Indexed keywords

IDENTIFICATION RATES; NON-VISUAL INTERACTION; TACTILE ICONS; TACTONS; VIBROTACTILE; VISUAL INFORMATION;

HUMAN ENGINEERING; MOBILE DEVICES; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

DESIGN;

EID: 54249136638     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1125451.1125578     Document Type: Conference Paper

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