Improving guide dog team play with accessible dog toys

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 1537-1542

  Hauser, Sabrina ^a   Neustaedter, Carman ^a   Wakkary, Ron ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Guide dogs; Human canine interaction; Interaction design; Visually impaired

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SCIENCE; ERGONOMICS;

GUIDE DOGS; HUMAN-CANINE INTERACTION; INTERACTION DESIGN; SENSOR TECHNOLOGIES; USER GROUPS; VISION IMPAIRMENTS; VISUALLY IMPAIRED;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

EID: 84900562672     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2559206.2581316     Document Type: Conference Paper

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