A haptic interface "force blinker 2" for navigation of the visually impaired

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 59, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 4112-4119

  Ando, Takeshi ^a,b   Tsukahara, Ryota ^b   Seki, Masatoshi ^b   Fujie, Masakatsu G ^b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cane; haptics; navigation; the visually impaired

Indexed keywords

CANE; CENTRIFUGAL FORCES; CONTROL PERFORMANCE; DECISION SYSTEMS; HAPTICS; RECOGNITION PERFORMANCE; REPULSIVE FORCES; ROTATIONAL ANGLE; VISUALLY IMPAIRED;

HAPTIC INTERFACES; NAVIGATION;

MICE (COMPUTER PERIPHERALS);

EID: 84862988237     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2011.2173894     Document Type: Article

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