Verbal assistance in tactile-map explorations: A case for visual representations and reasoning

AAAI Workshop - Technical Report

Volumn WS-10-07, Issue , 2010, Pages 34-41

  Habel, Christopher ^a   Kerzel, Matthias ^a   Lohmann, Kris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORCE FEEDBACK DEVICES; LOWER RESOLUTION; PRIOR KNOWLEDGE; SPATIAL RELATIONS; TACTILE MAPS; TEXTUAL LABELS; VERBAL INSTRUCTIONS; VISUAL MAP; VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS; VISUALLY IMPAIRED PEOPLE;

HANDICAPPED PERSONS;

EID: 79959769126     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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