Multimodal trajectory playback for teaching shape information and trajectories to visually impaired computer users

ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Crossan, Andrew ^a   Brewster, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Evaluation; Multimodal; Trajectory playback

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; APPLICATION CONTEXTS; COLLABORATIVE SETTINGS; COMPUTER USERS; DYNAMIC INFORMATION; EVALUATION; FORCE FEEDBACK DEVICES; FORCE-FEEDBACK; MULTI-MODAL; SHAPE INFORMATION; VISUALLY IMPAIRED; VISUALLY IMPAIRED PEOPLE; VISUALLY-IMPAIRED USERS;

TRAJECTORIES;

EID: 70049110517     PISSN: 19367228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1408760.1408766     Document Type: Article

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