Vibrotactile letter reading using a low-resolution tactor array

Proceedings - 12th International Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems, HAPTICS

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 400-406

  Yanagida, Yasuyuki ^a   Kakita, Mitsuhiro ^a,b   Lindeman, Robert W ^a,c   Kume, Yuichiro ^a,d   Tetsutani, Nobuji ^a  

^a ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

^b JAPAN ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c George Washington University   (United States)

^d TOKYO POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LETTER READING; LOW-RESOLUTION TACTOR ARRAYS; VIBROTACTILE DISPLAYS;

ARRAYS; CHARACTER RECOGNITION; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; VIBROTACTILE AIDS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

DISPLAY DEVICES;

EID: 2942666311     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HAPTIC.2004.1287227     Document Type: Conference Paper

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