Low-fi skin vision: A case study in rapid prototyping a Sensory Substitution system

People and Computers XXIII Celebrating People and Technology - Proceedings of HCI 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 55-64

  Bird, Jon ^a   Marshall, Paul ^a   Rogers, Yvonne ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Embedded systems; Low fi rapid prototyping; Tactile Vision Sensory Substitution; TVSS

Indexed keywords

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; RAPID PROTOTYPING;

BUILDING COMPLEXES; DESIGN PROCESS; INTERACTIVE SYSTEM; LOW-FI RAPID PROTOTYPING; SENSORY SUBSTITUTION; TACTILE VISION SENSORY SUBSTITUTIONS; TVSS; VIBRATION MOTOR;

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS;

EID: 84860495706     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.14236/ewic/hci2009.7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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