Audible rendering of text documents controlled by multi-touch interaction

ICMI'12 - Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 401-408

  El Glaly, Yasmine N ^a   Quek, Francis ^a   Smith Jackson, Tonya ^b   Dhillon, Gurjot ^b  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Assistive technology; Audio rendering; Blindness; Finite state machine; Multi touch interaction; Reading; Spatial cognition; Touch device

Indexed keywords

ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY; AUDIO RENDERING; BLINDNESS; MULTI-TOUCH INTERACTIONS; READING; SPATIAL COGNITION; TOUCH DEVICE;

EYE PROTECTION; FINITE AUTOMATA; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

DISPLAY DEVICES;

EID: 84870233641     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2388676.2388767     Document Type: Conference Paper

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