Haptic rendering of visual data for the visually impaired

IEEE Multimedia

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 62-72

  Moustakas, Konstantinos ^a   Nikolakis, Georgios ^a   Kostopoulos, Konstantinos ^a   Tzovaras, Dimitrios ^a   Strintzis, Michael G ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

3D maps; Blind users; Force field; Haptic rendering; Implicit surface approximation; Structure from motion

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA VISUALIZATION; HANDICAPPED PERSONS;

HAPTIC RENDERING; VISUAL DATA; VISUALLY IMPAIRED PEOPLE;

HAPTIC INTERFACES;

EID: 33847655192     PISSN: 1070986X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MMUL.2007.10     Document Type: Article

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