Verbal association to tactile patterns: A step towards textured legends in multimodal maps

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 3579-3584

  Megard, Christine ^a   Roselier, Samuel ^a   Burkhardt, Jean Marie ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE RADIOPROTECTION ET DE SÛRETÉ NUCLÉAIRE   (France)

^b Unite Ergonomie Comportement Interactions   (France)

Author keywords

Blind users; Multimodal maps; Semantic associations; Tactile pattern

Indexed keywords

BLIND USERS; EMPIRICAL EVIDENCES; MULTI MODALS; MULTIMODAL MAPS; PILOT STUDIES; SEMANTIC ASSOCIATIONS; STRONG CORRELATIONS; TACTILE PATTERN; TACTILE PATTERNS; VERBAL DESCRIPTIONS; VISUALLY IMPAIRED;

HUMAN ENGINEERING; INFORMATION THEORY; MAPS; OPTICAL PROJECTORS;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 57049169178     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1358628.1358894     Document Type: Conference Paper

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