Supporting visually impaired navigation: A needs-finding study

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1645-1650

  Quiñones, Pablo Alejandro ^a   Greene, Tammy C ^a   Yang, Rayoung ^a   Newman, Mark W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Location based computing; Visual impairment; Wayfinding

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; DESIGNING SYSTEMS; DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENTS; INTERVIEW STUDY; LOCATION BASED; LOCATION-BASED COMPUTING; NEED FINDINGS; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VISUALLY IMPAIRED; WAY FINDING;

EID: 79957942351     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1979742.1979822     Document Type: Conference Paper

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