Information capacity of the thumb and the index finger in communication

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1535-1545

  Mao, Zhi Hong ^a   Lee, Heung No ^b   Sclabassi, Robert J ^c   Sun, Mingui ^c  

^a University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

^b Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Hand; Human machine systems; Index finger; Information capacity; Thumb

Indexed keywords

HAND; HUMAN-MACHINE SYSTEMS; INDEX FINGER; INFORMATION CAPACITY; THUMB;

COMMUNICATION;

CHANNEL CAPACITY;

ARTICLE; GESTURE; HAND; INDEX FINGER; INFORMATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MACHINE LEARNING; THUMB;

ALGORITHMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FINGER JOINT; FINGERS; GESTURES; HUMANS; INFORMATION THEORY; MAN-MACHINE SYSTEMS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; THUMB;

EID: 67649208268     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2008.2011817     Document Type: Article

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