Mobile science learning for the blind

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 3201-3206

  Sánchez, Jaime ^a   Flores, Héctor ^a   Sáenz, Mauricio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Blind learners; Mobile learning; Science learning; Usability; Virtual acoustic environments

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; FLOW INTERACTIONS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

BLIND LEARNERS; MOBILE LEARNING; SCIENCE LEARNING; USABILITY; VIRTUAL ACOUSTIC ENVIRONMENTS;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 57049117398     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1358628.1358831     Document Type: Conference Paper

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