Towards a geographic information system facilitating navigation of visually impaired users

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7383 LNCS, Issue PART 2, 2012, Pages 521-528

  Kammoun, Slim ^a   Macé, Marc J M ^a   Oriola, Bernard ^a   Jouffrais, Christophe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

Assistive technology; Electronic Orientation Aids; Geographical Information System; Participatory design

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL TOOL; ASSISTIVE DEVICES; ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY; DESIGN PROCESS; GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; GPS-BASED NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; MOBILITY CAPABILITIES; ORIENTATION AIDS; PARTICIPATORY DESIGN; QUALITY OF LIFE; USER CENTERED DESIGNS; VISUALLY IMPAIRED; VISUALLY-IMPAIRED USERS;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84864811098     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-31534-3_77     Document Type: Conference Paper

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