A tactile seat for direction coding in car driving: Field evaluation

IEEE Transactions on Haptics

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 181-188

  Hogema, Jeroen H ^a   De Vries, Sjoerd C ^a   Van Erp, Jan B F ^a   Kiefer, Raymond J ^b  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

^b GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Haptic I O; Human factors; User interfaces

Indexed keywords

CAR DRIVING; CAR SEATS; DIRECTIONAL ACCURACY; DIRECTIONAL INFORMATION; FIELD EVALUATION; FIELD STUDIES; HAPTIC I/O; HUMAN FACTORS; MATRIX; OBLIQUE DIRECTION; PERFORMANCE MEASURE; REACTION TIME; ROBUST METHODS; TACTILE STIMULATION;

HUMAN ENGINEERING; ROADS AND STREETS;

HAPTIC INTERFACES;

EID: 72649106911     PISSN: 19391412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TOH.2009.35     Document Type: Article

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