MultiVis: Improving access to visualisations for visually impaired people

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 267-270

  McGookin, David K ^a   Brewster, Stephen A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Haptics; Visual impairment; Visualisation

Indexed keywords

BAR GRAPHS; CURRENT TECHNOLOGY; GRAPH CONSTRUCTION; HAPTICS; MATHEMATICAL GRAPH; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VISUALLY IMPAIRED PEOPLE; VISUALLY-IMPAIRED USERS;

HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMAN REHABILITATION EQUIPMENT;

VISUALIZATION;

EID: 84869121203     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1125451.1125509     Document Type: Conference Paper

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