Collaborative accessibility: How blind and sighted companions co-create accessible home spaces

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn 2015-April, Issue , 2015, Pages 2373-2382

  Branham, Stacy M ^a   Kane, Shaun K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Blindness; Collaboration; Home; Interpersonal relationships; Vision impairment

Indexed keywords

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN ENGINEERING;

ACCESSIBILITY; BLINDNESS; COLLABORATION; HOME; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIP; VISION IMPAIRMENTS;

TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 84951026470     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2702123.2702511     Document Type: Conference Paper

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