Digitizer Auditory Graph: Making graphs accessible to the visually impaired

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 3445-3450

  Choi, Stephen H ^a   Walker, Bruce N ^b  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Assistive technology; Auditory graph; Sonification; Visually impaired

Indexed keywords

ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY; CELL PHONE CAMERA; DESIGN APPROACHES; DESIGN GOAL; DIGITIZERS; EVALUATION RESULTS; GRAPH IMAGE; INPUT DEVICES; LINE GRAPH; MULTIMODAL DISPLAYS; SOFTWARE TOOL; SONIFICATIONS; USER TESTING; VISUALLY IMPAIRED; VISUALLY IMPAIRED STUDENTS;

CAMERAS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT;

CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS;

EID: 77953112806     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1753846.1753999     Document Type: Conference Paper

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