Virtual leading blocks for the deaf-blind: A real-time way-finder by verbal-nonverbal hybrid interface and high-density RFID tag space

Proceedings - Virtual Reality Annual International Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 165-172

  Amemiya, Tomohiro ^a   Yamashita, Jun ^b   Hirota, Koichi ^b   Hirose, Michitaka ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUGMENTED REALITY (AR); RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATIONS (RFID); TACTILE SENSATIONS;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; HAPTIC INTERFACES; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NAVIGATION; REMOTE CONTROL;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 3042542573     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VR.2004.1310070     Document Type: Conference Paper

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