Sudoku access: A Sudoku game for people with motor disabilities

ASSETS'08: The 10th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 161-167

  Norte, Stéphane ^a   Lobo, Fernando G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALGARVE   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Scanning systems; Speech recognition; Sudoku puzzle

Indexed keywords

GAME THEORY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; RADAR; SCANNING; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ACCESSIBILITY; COMPUTER GAMES; DISABLED PEOPLES; EDUCATIONAL GAMES; ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES; GAME ENVIRONMENTS; LOGIC THINKINGS; MOTOR DISABILITIES; SCANNING SYSTEMS; SINGLE SWITCHES; SUDOKU PUZZLE; USER STUDIES;

USABILITY ENGINEERING;

EID: 62949112463     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1414471.1414502     Document Type: Conference Paper

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