Feeling through tactile displays: A study on the effect of the array density and size on the discrimination of tactile patterns

IEEE Transactions on Haptics

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 100-110

  Garcia Hernandez, Nadia ^a   Tsagarakis, Nikos G ^a   Caldwell, Darwin G ^a  

^a ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

tactile devices; Tactile perception and psychophysics; tactile system design and evaluation

Indexed keywords

ARRAY DENSITIES; ARRAY SIZES; DEVICE PERFORMANCE; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; DISCRIMINATION ABILITY; EDGE-BASED; LOW COMPLEXITY; PATTERN INFORMATION; PERFORMANCE MEASURE; PSYCHOPHYSICAL EXPERIMENTS; REMOTE MANIPULATION; SHAPE RECOGNITION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TACTILE CUES; TACTILE DEVICE; TACTILE DISPLAY; TACTILE INFORMATION; TACTILE PATTERNS; TACTILE PERCEPTION; TACTILE SYSTEM DESIGN AND EVALUATION; TRIAL AND ERROR; TWO PARAMETER;

SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

DISPLAY DEVICES;

EID: 79958843991     PISSN: 19391412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TOH.2010.59     Document Type: Article

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