Shape discrimination in active touch: Effects of exploratory direction and their exploitation

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5024 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 219-228

  Drewing, Knut ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

active touch; exploratory movement; psychophysics; shape

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; CONTROL THEORY;

ACTIVE CONTROLS; ACTIVE TOUCH; DIRECTION OF STIMULUS; DISCRIMINATION THRESHOLDS; EXPLORATORY MOVEMENT; HAPTIC PERCEPTIONS; INTEGRAL PARTS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SHAPE; SHAPE DISCRIMINATIONS;

LAW ENFORCEMENT;

EID: 54249169113     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-69057-3_26     Document Type: Conference Paper

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