Web-based haptic applications for blind people to create virtual graphs

Proceedings - 11th Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems, HAPTICS 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 318-325

  Yu, Wai ^a   Kangas, K ^b   Brewster, S ^b  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Educational institutions; Fingers; Force feedback; Haptic interfaces; Image converters; Interactive systems; Mice; Pins; Virtual reality; Visualization

Indexed keywords

FLOW VISUALIZATION; IMAGE CONVERTERS; MAMMALS; MICE (COMPUTER PERIPHERALS); REMOTE CONTROL; VIRTUAL REALITY; WEBSITES;

EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS; FINGERS; FORCE FEEDBACK; INTERACTIVE SYSTEM; MICE; PINS;

HAPTIC INTERFACES;

EID: 84944055158     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HAPTIC.2003.1191301     Document Type: Conference Paper

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