Local surface orientation dominates haptic curvature discrimination

IEEE Transactions on Haptics

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 94-102

  Wijntjes, Maarten W A ^a   Sato, Akihiro ^b   Hayward, Vincent ^b   Kappers, Astrid M L ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Haptic curvature perception; Haptic devices; Real and virtual shapes

Indexed keywords

CONTACT SURFACE; CONTROLLED SOURCE; CURVED SURFACES; DIFFERENT SCALE; DISCRIMINATION THRESHOLDS; GEOMETRIC INFORMATION; HAPTIC CURVATURE PERCEPTION; HAPTIC DEVICES; LATERAL DIRECTIONS; LOCAL SURFACES; REAL AND VIRTUAL SHAPES; SHAPE INFORMATION; STATIC CONDITIONS;

LAW ENFORCEMENT;

EID: 67651097732     PISSN: 19391412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TOH.2009.1     Document Type: Article

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