Usability evaluation of acoustic interfaces for the blind

SIGDOC'11 - Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 9-16

  Ferati, Mexhid ^a   Mannheimer, Steve ^a   Bolchini, Davide ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

acoustic; audeme; auditory communication; auditory design; blind and visually impaired; children; interface; sound; touchscreen; usability evaluation

Indexed keywords

AUDEME; AUDITORY COMMUNICATION; AUDITORY DESIGN; CHILDREN; TOUCH SCREEN; USABILITY EVALUATION; VISUALLY IMPAIRED;

DESIGN;

EID: 80054778613     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2038476.2038479     Document Type: Conference Paper

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