Controller design and consonantal contrast coding using a multi-finger tactual display

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 125, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 3925-3935

  Israr, Ali ^a   Meckl, Peter H ^b   Reed, Charlotte M ^c   Tan, Hong Z ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b 585 Purdue Mall   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLER DESIGNS; ELECTROMECHANICAL PROPERTY; FEEDBACK CONTROLLER; HUMAN DETECTION; HUMAN USERS; INITIAL POSITION; MULTI-FINGER TACTUAL DISPLAYS; PREFILTER; SENSITIVITY INDICES; SENSORY CHARACTERISTICS; SENSORY SYSTEM; SPECTRAL FEATURE; SPEECH SIGNALS; THRESHOLD FUNCTIONS; TWO-DEGREE-OF-FREEDOM CONTROLLER; WAVE FORMS;

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; CONTROLLERS; FEEDBACK CONTROL; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; NONLINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONSONANT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY SYSTEM; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH; VALIDITY; VIBRATION; VOWEL; WAVEFORM;

ADULT; COMMUNICATION; ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FINGERS; HUMANS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHONETICS; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH RECOGNITION SOFTWARE; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TOUCH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67649130558     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3124771     Document Type: Article

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