Display of Virtual Braille Dots by Lateral Skin Deformation: Feasibility Study

ACM Transactions on Applied Perception

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 132-149

  Lévesque, Vincent ^a   Pasquero, Jérôme ^a   Hayward, Vincent ^a   Legault, Maryse ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b VisuAide Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

Braille display; Design; Experimentation; Human Factors; lateral skin deformation; tactile perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745872168     PISSN: 15443558     EISSN: 15443965     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1060581.1060587     Document Type: Article

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