SmartTouch: Electric Skin to Touch the Untouchable

IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 36-42

  Kajimoto, Hiroyuki ^a   Kawakami, Naoki ^a   Tachi, Susumu ^a   Inami, Masahiko ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICAL STIMULATION; TACTILE DISPLAY;

DISPLAY DEVICES; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; OPTICAL SENSORS; SENSORY PERCEPTION; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

HAPTIC INTERFACES;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL SKIN; BIOMIMETICS; CLINICAL TRIAL; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FUNCTIONS OF THE SKIN AND ITS APPENDAGES; HUMAN; INNERVATION; INSTRUMENTATION; MECHANICAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESSURE; SKIN; STIMULATION; TOUCH; TRANSDUCER; VALIDATION STUDY;

BIOMIMETICS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRODES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PRESSURE; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SKIN; SKIN PHYSIOLOGY; SKIN, ARTIFICIAL; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TOUCH; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 0742285900     PISSN: 02721716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MCG.2004.1255807     Document Type: Article

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