Methods for presenting braille characters on a mobile device with a touchscreen and tactile feedback

IEEE Transactions on Haptics

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 28-39

  Rantala, Jussi ^a   Raisamo, Roope ^a   Lylykangas, Jani ^a   Surakka, Veikko ^a   Raisamo, Jukka ^a   Salminen, Katri ^a   Pakkanen, Toni ^a   Hippula, Arto ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Assistive technologies for persons with disabilities; Haptic I O; Input devices and strategies; Interaction styles

Indexed keywords

ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGIES FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES; BRAILLE CHARACTERS; HAPTIC I/O; INPUT DEVICES; INTERACTION METHODS; INTERACTION STYLES; PROOF OF CONCEPT; PROTOTYPE DEVICES; RECOGNITION ACCURACY; RHYTHMIC PATTERNS; TACTILE FEEDBACK; TOUCH SCREEN;

HANDICAPPED PERSONS; KNOBS; MOBILE DEVICES; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 70450189094     PISSN: 19391412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TOH.2009.3     Document Type: Article

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