Usable gestures for blind people: Understanding preference and performance

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 413-422

  Kane, Shaun K ^a   Wobbrock, Jacob O ^a   Ladner, Richard E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Blind; Gesture recognition; Gestures; Touch screens

Indexed keywords

GESTURE RECOGNITION; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; PERSONAL COMPUTERS;

ACCESSIBILITY; BLIND; BLIND PEOPLE; COMPUTING-TASK; GESTURE; GESTURES RECOGNITION; PERFORMANCE; STUMBLING BLOCKS; TOUCH SCREEN INTERFACE; USER STUDY;

TOUCH SCREENS;

EID: 79958117118     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1978942.1979001     Document Type: Conference Paper

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