A haptic/acoustic application to allow blind the access to spatial information

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

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 310-315

  De Felice, F ^a   Renna, F ^a   Attolico, G ^a   Distante, A ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS FOR AUTOMATION   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; DATA PROCESSING; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; HANDICAPPED PERSONS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VIRTUAL REALITY;

GEOGRAPHICAL AREAS; SPATIAL INFORMATION; TACTILE SENSORY CHANNELS;

HAPTIC INTERFACES;

EID: 34548136144     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WHC.2007.6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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