Information transmission with a multifinger tactual display

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 993-1008

  Tan, Hong Z ^a,b   Durlach, Nathaniel I ^a   Reed, Charlotte M ^a   Rabinowitz, William M ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNICATION AID; FEMALE; HUMAN; KINESTHESIA; MALE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; TOUCH; VIBRATION;

COMMUNICATION AIDS FOR DISABLED; FEMALE; HUMANS; KINESTHESIS; MALE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; TOUCH; VIBRATION;

EID: 0033173467     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03207608     Document Type: Article

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