Educational sound symbols for the visually impaired

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5614 LNCS, Issue PART 1, 2009, Pages 106-115

  Mannheimer, Steve ^a   Ferati, Mexhid ^a   Bolchini, Davide ^a   Palakal, Mathew ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Acoustic; Audeme; Blind and visually impaired; Cognition; Education; Interface; Long term memory; Sound

Indexed keywords

BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED; BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED USERS; CIVIL WAR; EARCONS; EDUCATIONAL APPROACH; EDUCATIONAL CONTENTS; INDIANA UNIVERSITY; INFORMATICS; INTERACTIVITY; LONG TERM MEMORY; VISUALLY IMPAIRED;

ACOUSTICS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; STUDENTS;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 70450169309     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-02707-9_12     Document Type: Conference Paper

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