Usability of a multimodal videogame to improve navigation skills for blind children

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 35-42

  Sánchez, Jaime ^a   Sáenz, Mauricio ^a   Ripoll, Miguel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

Author keywords

Blind children; Haptic and audio interfaces; Navigation; Virtual environments

Indexed keywords

AUDIO INTERFACES; BLIND CHILDREN; DIGITAL CLOCKS; EVALUATION STUDY; HAPTIC AND AUDIO INTERFACES; HAPTIC DEVICES; MULTI-MODAL; USABILITY EVALUATION; USER'S SATISFACTION; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS;

HAPTIC INTERFACES; NAVIGATION; USABILITY ENGINEERING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

EDUCATION;

EID: 72549099413     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1639642.1639651     Document Type: Conference Paper

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