Universal design of auditory graphs: A comparison of sonification mappings for visually impaired and sighted listeners

ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Walker, B N ^a   Mauney, L M ^a  

^a Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory display; Magnitude estimation; Visually impaired

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PARAMETERS; AUDITORY DISPLAY; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA VALUES; DESIGN ISSUES; MAGNITUDE ESTIMATION; MODULATION INDEXES; PSYCHOPHYSICAL SCALING; SCALING FUNCTIONS; SOFTWARE DESIGNERS; SONIFICATIONS; UNIVERSAL DESIGN; VISION IMPAIRMENTS; VISUALLY IMPAIRED;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DESIGN; ESTIMATION; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION;

DATA VISUALIZATION;

EID: 78651574684     PISSN: 19367228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1714458.1714459     Document Type: Article

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