Tongue mounted interface for digitally actuating the sense of taste

Proceedings - International Symposium on Wearable Computers, ISWC

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 80-87

  Ranasinghe, Nimesha ^a   Nakatsu, Ryohei ^a   Nii, Hideaki ^a   Gopalakrishnakone, Ponnampalam ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Control systems; Digital Taste; Gustation; Taste; Ubiquitous computing; User interfaces; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL TASTE; ELECTRICAL STIMULATIONS; GUSTATION; HUMAN TONGUE; TASTE; TASTE SENSATION; THERMAL STIMULATION;

BLENDING; CONTROL SYSTEMS; DIGITAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING; USER INTERFACES; VIRTUAL REALITY;

WEARABLE COMPUTERS;

EID: 84866551586     PISSN: 15504816     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISWC.2012.16     Document Type: Conference Paper

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