Signing on the tactile line: A multimodal system for teaching handwriting to blind children

ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Plimmer, Beryl ^a   Reid, Peter ^a   Blagojevic, Rachel ^a   Crossan, Andrew ^b   Brewster, Stephen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Audio and haptic feedback; Children; Handwriting; Multimodal interaction; Visually impaired users

Indexed keywords

CHILDREN; HANDWRITING; HAPTIC FEEDBACKS; MULTI-MODAL INTERACTIONS; VISUALLY-IMPAIRED USERS;

EDUCATION; HAPTIC INTERFACES;

HANDICAPPED PERSONS;

EID: 80051977009     PISSN: 10730516     EISSN: 15577325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1993060.1993067h     Document Type: Article

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