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Communicating graphical information to blind users using music: the role of context

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Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems table of contents

Los Angeles, California, United States

Pages: 574 - 581

Year of Publication: 1998

ISBN:0-201-30987-4

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James L. Alty	LUTCHI Research Centre, Dept. of Computer Science, Loughborough University, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 3TU, UK
Dimitrios I. Rigas	School. of Computing and Mathematics, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, HD1 3DH, UK

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SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction

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ACM Press/Addison-Wesley Publishing Co. New York, NY, USA

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