Accessible Games for Blind Children, Empowered by Binaural Sound

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Accessible Games for Blind Children, Empowered by Binaural Sound. / Drossos, Konstantinos; Zormpas, Nikolaos; Giannakopoulos, George; Floros, Andreas.

Proceedings of the 8th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments. New York, NY, USA : Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2015. p. 5:1-5:8 (PETRA '15).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Scientific › peer-review

Harvard

Drossos, K, Zormpas, N, Giannakopoulos, G & Floros, A 2015, Accessible Games for Blind Children, Empowered by Binaural Sound. in Proceedings of the 8th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments. PETRA '15, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York, NY, USA, pp. 5:1-5:8. https://doi.org/10.1145/2769493.2769546

APA

Drossos, K., Zormpas, N., Giannakopoulos, G., & Floros, A. (2015). Accessible Games for Blind Children, Empowered by Binaural Sound. In Proceedings of the 8th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (pp. 5:1-5:8). (PETRA '15). New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/2769493.2769546

Vancouver

Drossos K, Zormpas N, Giannakopoulos G, Floros A. Accessible Games for Blind Children, Empowered by Binaural Sound. In Proceedings of the 8th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). 2015. p. 5:1-5:8. (PETRA '15). https://doi.org/10.1145/2769493.2769546

Author

Drossos, Konstantinos ; Zormpas, Nikolaos ; Giannakopoulos, George ; Floros, Andreas. / Accessible Games for Blind Children, Empowered by Binaural Sound. Proceedings of the 8th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments. New York, NY, USA : Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2015. pp. 5:1-5:8 (PETRA '15).

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