The haptic cuing of visual spatial attention: Evidence of a spotlight effect

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7240, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Tan, Hong Z ^a   Gray, Robert ^b   Spence, Charles ^c   Jones, Chanon M ^a   Rosli, Roslizawaty Mohd ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cue validity; Eye gaze; Haptic cuing; Spotlight of attention; Visual spatial attention

Indexed keywords

CUE VALIDITY; EYE-GAZE; HAPTIC CUING; SPOTLIGHT OF ATTENTION; VISUAL SPATIAL ATTENTION;

LOCATION; TARGETS;

HAPTIC INTERFACES;

EID: 63549148503     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.817168     Document Type: Conference Paper

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