An architecture for immersive evaluation of complex human tasks

IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 475-485

  Molet, Tom ^b   Boulic, Ronan ^a,b   Rezzonico, Serge ^b   Thalmann, Daniel ^b  

^a IEEE

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Human movement measurement; Interactive grasping; Task evaluation architecture

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; FEEDBACK; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

HUMAN MOVEMENT MEASUREMENT; INTERACTIVE GRASPING; TASK EVALUATION ARCHITECTURE;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 0032672892     PISSN: 1042296X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/70.768180     Document Type: Review

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