Usability of a multimodal video game to improve navigation skills for blind children

ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Sánchez, Jaime ^a   Saenz, Mauricio ^a   Garrido, Jose Miguel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE VALPARAÍSO   (Chile)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

3D VIDEO; AUDIO INTERFACES; BLIND CHILDREN; COGNITIVE LEARNING; DIGITAL CLOCKS; HAPTIC DEVICES; MULTI-MODAL; ORIENTATION AND MOBILITIES; SPATIAL ORIENTATIONS; USABILITY EVALUATION; USER'S SATISFACTION; VIDEO GAME; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS;

HAPTIC INTERFACES; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; NAVIGATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

EDUCATION;

EID: 78651572723     PISSN: 19367228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1857920.1857924     Document Type: Article

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