A visuo-haptic device - Telemaque - Increases kindergarten children's handwriting acquisition

Proceedings - Second Joint EuroHaptics Conference and Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems, World Haptics 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 72-77

  Palluel Germain, R ^a   Bara, F ^b   De Boisferon, A Hillairet ^c   Hennion, B ^d   Gouagout, P ^d   Gentaz, E ^c  

^a MOSS REHABILITATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE MENDÈS FRANCE   (France)

^d ORANGE LABS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; DATA ACQUISITION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PERSONNEL TRAINING;

KINEMATIC PARAMETERS; VISUO-HAPTIC DEVICE;

HAPTIC INTERFACES;

EID: 34548131198     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WHC.2007.13     Document Type: Conference Paper

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