An improved, low-cost tactile 'mouse' for use by individuals who are blind and visually impaired

ASSETS'09 - Proceedings of the 11th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 223-224

  Owen, Justin M ^a   Petro, Julie A ^a   D'Souza, Steve M ^a   Rastogi, Ravi ^a   Pawluk, Dianne T V ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Braille; Embossed graphics; Haptic mouse; Raised line drawings; Tactile graphics; Visually impaired; VT player

Indexed keywords

GRAPHICAL INFORMATION; LINE DRAWINGS; POSITION INFORMATION; TACTILE INFORMATION; TACTILE MOUSE; VISUALLY IMPAIRED;

DYNAMIC RESPONSE;

MICE (COMPUTER PERIPHERALS);

EID: 72249092074     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1639642.1639686     Document Type: Conference Paper

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