Interactive virtual acoustic environments for blind children: Computing, usability, and cognition

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 65-66

  Sánchez, Jaime ^a   Lumbreras, Mauricio ^b   Cernuzzi, Luca ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PLATA   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA NUESTRA SEÑORA DE LA ASUNCIÓN   (Paraguay)

Author keywords

Audio based navigation; Blind children; Spatial representation; Spatialized sound; Usability; Virtual acoustic environment

Indexed keywords

AUDIO-BASED NAVIGATION; BLIND CHILDREN; SPATIAL REPRESENTATIONS; SPATIALIZED SOUND; USABILITY; VIRTUAL ACOUSTIC ENVIRONMENTS;

STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER); VIRTUAL REALITY;

HANDICAPPED PERSONS;

EID: 84859465585     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/634067.634109     Document Type: Conference Paper

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