Sonic grid: An auditory interface for the visually impaired to navigate GUI-based environments

International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Proceedings IUI

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 337-340

  Jagdish, Deepak ^a   Sawhney, Rahul ^b   Gupta, Mohit ^c   Nangia, Shreyas ^d  

^a MICROSOFT   (United States)

^b INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^c MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^d INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT CALCUTTA   (India)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Auditory interface; Touch based devices

Indexed keywords

USER INTERFACES;

ACCESSIBILITY; AUDITORY INTERFACE; AUDITORY INTERFACES; AUDITORY REPRESENTATIONS; LEARNING CURVES; PARTICIPATORY DESIGNS; PROTOTYPE DESIGNS; SPATIAL CONTEXTS; TOUCH BASED DEVICES; VISUALLY IMPAIRED;

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES;

EID: 57349155645     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1378773.1378824     Document Type: Conference Paper

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