VizTouch: Automatically generated tactile visualizations of coordinate spaces

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction, TEI 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 131-138

  Brown, Craig ^a   Hurst, Amy ^b  

^a The George Washington University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Assistive Technology; Human Computer Interaction; Rapid Prototyping; Tactile Visualizations

Indexed keywords

3-D PRINTING; ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY; AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED; COORDINATE SPACE; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; USER-CENTERED DESIGN PROCESS;

DATA VISUALIZATION; RAPID PROTOTYPING; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

VISUALIZATION;

EID: 84859012594     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2148131.2148160     Document Type: Conference Paper

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