Making the mainstream accessible: Redefining the game

Proceedings - Sandbox Symposium 2006: ACM SIGGRAPH Video Game Symposium, Sandbox '06

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 21-28

  Atkinson, Matthew T ^a   Gucukoglu, Sabahattin ^b   Machin, Colin H C ^a   Lawrence, Adrian E ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b AGRIP Project   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

accessibility; audiogames; multimodal interfaces; usability

Indexed keywords

3D STRUCTURE; COMPUTER GAME; MULTI-MODAL INTERFACES; TECHNIQUES USED; USER FEEDBACK;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

RESEARCH;

EID: 62949199683     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1183316.1183321     Document Type: Conference Paper

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