Designing universally accessible games

Computers in Entertainment

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Grammenos, Dimitris ^a,c   Savidis, Anthony ^b   Stephanidis, Constantine ^b  

^a Institute of Computer Science   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Accessible games; Design for all; Unified design; Universal access

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBLE GAMES; COMPUTER GAME; DESIGN FOR ALL; EDUCATIONAL TOOLS; INPUT DEVICES; INTERACTION CONTROLS; INTERACTION TECHNIQUES; INTERACTIVE APPLICATIONS; KNOW-HOW; MULTIPLAYER; NOVEL CONCEPT; PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES; POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS; RESEARCH CHALLENGES; UNIFIED DESIGN; UNIVERSAL ACCESS; VISUAL CONTROL;

DESIGN; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 67649531313     PISSN: 15443574     EISSN: 15443981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1486508.1486516     Document Type: Article

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