Vibrotactile transduction and transducers

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 121, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 2970-2977

  Mortimer, Bruce J P ^a   Zets, Gary A ^a   Cholewiak, Roger W ^a  

^a Engineering Acoustics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC MOTORS; MACHINE DESIGN; OPTIMIZATION; SKIN EFFECT;

LINEAR ACTUATORS; SKIN IMPEDANCE; TRANSDUCER DESIGN; VIBROTACTILE SYSTEMS; VIBROTACTILE TRANSDUCTION;

ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS;

ARTICLE; COST; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKIN; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; TOUCH; TRANSDUCER; VIBRATION SENSE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; HUMANS; SKIN; TOUCH; TRANSDUCERS; VIBRATION;

EID: 34247859226     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2715669     Document Type: Article

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