A broadband tactile array on the fingertip

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 112, Issue 5 I, 2002, Pages 2118-2126

  Summers, Ian R ^a   Chanter, Craig M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NATURAL FREQUENCIES; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

AMPLITUDE RATIO;

ACOUSTIC ARRAYS;

ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTICS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MECHANORECEPTOR; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; VALIDATION PROCESS; VIBRATION SENSE; WAVEFORM;

ADULT; FEMALE; FINGERS; HUMANS; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; TOUCH; VIBRATION;

EID: 0036839787     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1510140     Document Type: Article

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