"I hear the pattern" - Interactive sonification of geographical data patterns

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1905-1908

  Zhao, Haixia ^a   Plaisant, Catherine ^a   Shneiderman, Ben ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory user interfaces; Information seeking; Sonification; Universal usability; Vision impairment

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY USER INTERFACES; INFORMATION SEEKING; SONIFICATIONS; UNIVERSAL USABILITY; VISION IMPAIRMENTS;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMAN REHABILITATION EQUIPMENT;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 84869113311     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1056808.1057052     Document Type: Conference Paper

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