Interactive tactile maps, visual disability, and accessibility of building interiors

Visual Impairment Research

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 11-21

  Arditi, Aries ^a   Holmes, Emily ^a   Reedijk, Peter ^b   Whitehouse, Roger ^c  

^a Arlene R Gordon Research Institute   (United States)

^b Studio Reedijk   (United States)

^c Whitehouse Company   (United States)

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EID: 84874250542     PISSN: 1388235X     EISSN: 17445167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1076/vimr.1.1.11.4456     Document Type: Article

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