Polarity effect in electrovibration for tactile display

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 53, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2047-2054

  Kaczmarek, Kurt A ^a,b   Nammi, Krishnakant ^c   Agarwal, Abhishek K ^d   Tyler, Mitchell E ^a,b   Haase, Steven J ^e   Beebe, David J ^a,f  

^a IEEE   (United States)

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

^c PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^d Northwestern University   (United States)

^e SHIPPENSBURG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrovibration; Haptic; Polarity; Sensation; Tactile display; Waveform

Indexed keywords

ELECTROSTATIC FORCE; ELECTROVIBRATION; PICTOGRAPHIC INFORMATION; TACTILE DISPLAY;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; CAPACITORS; ELECTROSTATICS; MEDICAL IMAGING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VIBRATION CONTROL;

HAPTIC INTERFACES;

ADULT; ARTICLE; DIGITAL IMAGING; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HIGH FREQUENCY OSCILLATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE DISPLAY; MALE; PERCEPTION; SENSORY STIMULATION; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TACTILE STIMULATION; VIBRATION; WAVEFORM;

ADULT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FINGERS; HUMANS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SKIN; SKIN PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; SKIN PHYSIOLOGY; TOUCH; TRANSDUCERS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VIBRATION;

EID: 33749511424     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2006.881804     Document Type: Article

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