Electrotactile perception of scatterplots on the fingertips and abdomen

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 283-289

  Haase, Steven J ^a   Kaczmarek, K A ^b  

^a SHIPPENSBURG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrocutaneous; Electrotactile stimulation; Graph perception; Psychophysics; Sensory substitution; Tactile perception

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; GRAPH THEORY; SENSORY PERCEPTION; VISION;

ABDOMEN; FINGERTIPS; TACTILE DISPLAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

ABDOMEN; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; ELECTROTACTILE STIMULATION; FEMALE; FINGER; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOPHYSICS; TACTILE STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION;

ABDOMEN; ADULT; BLINDNESS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; FINGERS; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY AIDS; TOUCH; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 18144383051     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02345967     Document Type: Article

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