V-Braille: Haptic Braille perception using a touch-screen and vibration on mobile phones

ASSETS'10 - Proceedings of the 12th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 295-296

  Jayant, Chandrika ^a   Acuario, Christine ^a   Johnson, William A ^a   Hollier, Janet ^a   Ladner, Richard E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Blind; Deaf blind; Haptic perception; Mobile phone; Touchscreen; Vibration

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; BLIND; DEAF-BLIND; HAPTIC PERCEPTION; TOUCH SCREEN; VIBRATION;

HANDICAPPED PERSONS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; TELEPHONE; TELEPHONE SETS;

MOBILE PHONES;

EID: 78650595060     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1878803.1878878     Document Type: Conference Paper

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