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Enhancing Accessibility of Visual Information via Sound: Metaphoric Association versus Rule-Based Mapping
2012
Psychology
The goal of this study was to develop and test methods for enhancing accessibility of visual information through conversion to sound. In three experiments, normally sighted and visually impaired participants learned to associate sounds to referent visual stimuli. The conversion included an experience-based method that made use of natural sounds of objects and a rule-based method, which produced an appropriate "auditory graph" via a precise function. Learning was easier with the first method but
doi:10.4236/psych.2012.35058
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