Reading Braille and tactile ink-print on a planar tactile display

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

Volumn 6180 LNCS, Issue PART 2, 2010, Pages 482-489

  Prescher, Denise ^a   Nadig, Oliver ^b   Weber, Gerhard ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b Deutsche Blindenstudienanstalt EV   (Germany)

Author keywords

blind users; equidistant Braille; planar tactile display; reading speed; tactile ink print

Indexed keywords

BLIND USERS; BRAILLE DISPLAY; PLANAR TACTILE DISPLAY; READING SPEED; TACTILE DISPLAY; TWO-DIMENSIONALITY;

INK; MICE (COMPUTER PERIPHERALS); SPEED;

DISPLAY DEVICES;

EID: 77955059594     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-14100-3_72     Document Type: Conference Paper

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