Braille display by lateral skin deformation with the STReSS2 tactile transducer

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

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 115-120

  Lévesque, Vincent ^a   Pasquero, Jérôme ^a   Hayward, Vincent ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HAPTIC INTERFACES; INFORMATION USE; SENSORY PERCEPTION; SKIN;

BRAILLE DOTS; SKIN DEFORMATION; TACTILE TRANSDUCER;

TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 34548133661     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WHC.2007.25     Document Type: Conference Paper

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