Design, implementation, and case study of a pragmatic vibrotactile belt

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 114-125

  Rosenthal, Jacob ^a   Edwards, Nathan ^b   Villanueva, Daniel ^a   Krishna, Sreekar ^a   McDaniel, Troy ^a   Panchanathan, Sethuraman ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Human factors; situational awareness; tactile displays; user centered design; vibrotactile learning tool

Indexed keywords

HUMAN FACTORS; SITUATIONAL AWARENESS; TACTILE DISPLAY; USER CENTERED DESIGNS; VIBROTACTILE;

DESIGN; DISPLAY DEVICES; HUMAN ENGINEERING; MICE (COMPUTER PERIPHERALS); RESEARCH; VIRTUAL REALITY;

VIBROTACTILE AIDS;

EID: 78650065938     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2010.2065830     Document Type: Conference Paper

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