The TactaPack: A wireless sensor/actuator package for physical therapy applications

14th Symposium onHaptics Interfaces for Virtual Environment andTeleoperator Systems 2006 - Proceedings

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 337-341

  Lindeman, Robert W ^a   Yanagida, Yasuyuki ^b   Hosaka, Kenichi ^c   Abe, Shinji ^d  

^a Worcester Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

^b MEIJO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c ATR International Media Information Science Laboratories   (Japan)

^d ATR International Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories   (Japan)

Author keywords

Actuator; Physical therapy; Vibrotactile; Virtual reality; Wireless sensor

Indexed keywords

TACTAPACK; VIBROTACTILE STIMULI; WIRELESS SENSORS;

ACTUATORS; ELECTRONICS PACKAGING; JOINTS (ANATOMY); PHYSICAL THERAPY; VIRTUAL REALITY; WEARABLE COMPUTERS;

SENSORS;

EID: 33750959986     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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