Touch-screens are not tangible: Fusing tangible interaction with touch glass in readers for the blind

TEI 2013 - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 245-252

  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 State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Blindness; Overlay; Reader; Tactile; Touch screen

Indexed keywords

BLINDNESS; OVERLAY; READER; TACTILE; TANGIBLE INTERACTION; USABILITY STUDIES; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

EYE PROTECTION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MOBILE DEVICES;

TOUCH SCREENS;

EID: 84876857767     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2460625.2460665     Document Type: Conference Paper

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