AudiOdyssey: An accessible video game for both sighted and non-sighted gamers

Proceedings of the 2007 Conference on Future Play, Future Play '07

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 251-252

  Glinert, Eitan ^a   Wyse, Lonce ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

accessible design; accessible user interface; accessible video game; experimental game design; human computer interaction; sight impaired; vision impaired

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBLE DESIGN; EXPERIMENTAL GAME DESIGN; GAME DESIGN; IMPAIRED VISION; SIGHT IMPAIRED; VIDEO GAME;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DESIGN; POPULATION STATISTICS; USER INTERFACES;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 62949243154     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1328202.1328255     Document Type: Conference Paper

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