Teaching the blind to find their way by playing video games.
Computer based video games are receiving great interest as a means to learn and acquire new skills. As a novel approach to teaching navigation skills in the blind, we have developed Audio-based Environment Simulator (AbES); a virtual reality environment set within the context of a video game metapho...
Main Authors: | Lotfi B Merabet, Erin C Connors, Mark A Halko, Jaime Sánchez |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2012-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3446956?pdf=render |
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