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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Blind or visually impaired"”.
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Is Hearing Believing? Perception of Online Information Credibility by Screen Reader Users who are Blind or Visually Impaired
… modalities of Web access. This research explores how Web users who are blind or visually impaired perceive the credibility of online information and how the screen reader used by them to interact with the Web mediates the process. Credibility perception was studied in the context of the …
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Enabling the Blind to See Gestures
… speech and graphical presentation. For the communication to remain situated, dynamic synchrony must be maintained between the speech and dynamic focus in the graphics. Sighted students use vision for two purposes: access to graphical material and awareness of embodied behavior. This …
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FingerEye: An Electrotactile-mechanism Enabled Adaptive Sensory-substitution Aid for the Blind and Visually Impaired
… fingertip skin stimulation mechanisms for the blind or visually impaired (BVI). The final goal is to develop a novel electrotactile-based Braille (E-Braille) technology that helps the BVI to read any printed text that is not only written in the Braille language. The principle of work is …
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An empirical investigation into heightened listening as an access tool for electroacoustic music.
… electroacoustic (E/A) music that includes real world sounds. It builds on the Intention/Reception (I/R) project (Weale, 2005), which found that inexperienced listeners can appreciate this type of music. Heightened listening is defined in the HL project as a focused concentration on the internal …