Design and evaluation of a wearable remote social touch device

International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces and the Workshop on Machine Learning for Multimodal Interaction, ICMI-MLMI 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Wang, Rongrong ^a   Quek, Francis ^a   Teh, James K S ^b   Cheok, Adrian D ^b   Lai, Sep Riang ^b  

^a State University   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

affective interaction; haptic interface; remote touch

Indexed keywords

AFFECTIVE INTERACTION; FORCE LEVEL; FORCE-SENSOR; INPUT DEVICES; INTER-PERSONAL COMMUNICATIONS; REMOTE TOUCH; SMART PHONES; TELECOMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; UPPER ARM; USABILITY STUDIES;

COMMUNICATION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MICE (COMPUTER PERIPHERALS); TELEPHONE SETS;

HAPTIC INTERFACES;

EID: 78650934029     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1891903.1891959     Document Type: Conference Paper

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