Rotational skin stretch feedback: A wearable haptic display for motion

IEEE Transactions on Haptics

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 166-176

  Bark, Karlin ^a   Wheeler, Jason ^b   Shull, Pete ^a   Savall, Joan ^a   Cutkosky, Mark ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

haptics; proprioception; skin strain; Skin stretch; wearable

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY ROTATION; CONTROLLED JOINTS; HAPTIC DISPLAY; HAPTIC FEEDBACK DEVICES; HAPTICS; LIMB MOTIONS; PROPRIOCEPTION; PSYCHO-PHYSICAL TESTS; RANGE OF MOTIONS; ROTATIONAL DISPLACEMENTS; SKIN STRETCH; STIMULUS LEVELS; VIRTUAL OBJECTS; VISUAL MARKERS; WEARABLE;

HAPTIC INTERFACES;

EID: 77956233015     PISSN: 19391412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TOH.2010.21     Document Type: Article

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