Teaching the Blind to Find Their Way by Playing Video Games

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Merabet, Lotfi B ^a   Connors, Erin C ^a   Halko, Mark A ^a   Sánchez, Jaime ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BLINDNESS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; GAME; HUMAN; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; LEARNING STYLE; RECREATION; SIMULATOR; TEACHING; VIDEO GAME; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ADULT; BLINDNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VIDEO GAMES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84866558697     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0044958     Document Type: Article

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