Blind Hero: Enabling Guitar Hero for the visually impaired

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 169-176

  Yuan, Bei ^a   Folmer, Eelke ^a  

^a University of Nevada   (United States)

Author keywords

Blind; Game accessibility; Haptic; Visually impaired

Indexed keywords

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

AUDIO SIGNALS; BLIND; GAME ACCESSIBILITY; HAPTIC; HAPTIC FEEDBACKS; HAPTIC STIMULUS; VIDEO GAMES; VISION IMPAIRMENTS; VISUAL INFORMATIONS; VISUAL STIMULUS; VISUALLY IMPAIRED;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 62949234153     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1414471.1414503     Document Type: Conference Paper

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