On the audio representation of distance for blind users

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1839-1848

  Talbot, Martin ^a   Cowan, William ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Assistive technology; Blind users; Distance perception; Evaluation; Guidelines; Sound visualization

Indexed keywords

ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY; BLIND USERS; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; EVALUATION; GUIDELINES; SOUND VISUALIZATION;

ABSTRACTING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN ENGINEERING;

ENCODING (SYMBOLS);

EID: 84892458407     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1518701.1518984     Document Type: Conference Paper

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