A Study of Accessible Game Applications on Smartphone for Visually-Impaired Users
Journal Title: International Journal of the Computer, the Internet and Management - Year 2017, Vol 25, Issue 1
Abstract
In recent year, Mobile phone has become an important communication tool for daily living of people worldwide, and most of the mobile phones currently were addressed as ‘smartphone’. Due to these such kind of phones offered more advanced computing power and connectivity than anold contemporary style of mobile phone. Smartphones therefore have been repositioned as a new information medium and become a popular tool among people worldwide. Smartphone currently has become not only a primary technology device for general people, but they have been widely used by visually-impaired people. Visually-impaired users could use their smartphone based on their own individual preference such as to download applications that meet their need. But, the key important thing to use smartphone applications like to use internet websites for visually-impaired user was they must first ensure that all applications they need to download were fully accessible for them especially game applications. However there was a prominent lack of research on smart phone accessibility for such people. Also, there were lack of research studies and academic papers presented about accessible smart phone applications for visually-impaired people especially the concept and overview of accessible game applications on smartphone for visually-impaired users. This paper therefore proposed to review the overall concepts and types of accessible game applications on smartphone for visually-impaired Users.
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Pisit Prougestaporn, Nutsiri Kidkul
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