Human shape recognition performance for 3-D tactile display

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans.

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 637-644

  Shimojo, Makoto ^a   Shinohara, Masami ^b   Fukui, Yukio ^c  

^a IBARAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATL INST BIOSCI HUM TECHNOL   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Haptics display; Human performance; Tactile display; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000994601     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3468.798067     Document Type: Article

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