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Supporting orientation for blind people using museum guides

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Giuseppe Ghiani,

Barbara Leporini,

Fabio PaternòAuthors Info & Claims

CHI EA '08: CHI '08 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Pages 3417 - 3422

https://doi.org/10.1145/1358628.1358867

Published: 05 April 2008 Publication History

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Novel environments exploiting recent technology can enhance several tasks in applications such as mobile guides. However, in the many museum mobile guides that have been proposed, accessibility is often not explicitly addressed and the benefits of such technology are rarely made available to blind users. In this paper, we propose a solution for flexible orientation support in a multimodal and location-aware museum guide, which has been developed specifically for blind users.

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3544548.3581220
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Supporting orientation for blind people using museum guides
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)

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CHI EA '08: CHI '08 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

April 2008

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ISBN:9781605580128

DOI:10.1145/1358628

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