Improvement of touch sensitivity by pressing

Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS'08 - "Personalized Healthcare through Technology"

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 2409-2414

  Jeong, Hie Yong ^a   Higashimori, Mitsuru ^a   Kaneko, Makoto ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMODYNAMICS; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

BLOOD FLOW; DISCRIMINATION TESTS; HUMAN FINGERS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE TEST; TOUCH SENSITIVITY;

BLOOD;

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FUNCTIONS OF THE SKIN AND ITS APPENDAGES; HUMAN; LASER; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STIMULATION; TEMPERATURE; TIME; TOUCH;

BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; LASERS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; TOUCH;

EID: 61849097365     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2008.4649685     Document Type: Conference Paper

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