Mechanical force redistribution: Enabling seamless, large-format, high-accuracy surface interaction

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 4137-4146

  Grau, Alex ^a   Hendee, Charles ^a   Rizzo, John Ross ^a   Perlin, Ken ^b  

^a Tactonic Technologies LLC   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Floors; Force; Input Device; Large Format; Mechanical Force Redistribution; Medical; Pressure; Sensor; Tabletop

Indexed keywords

FLOORS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; PRESSURE; SENSORS;

FORCE; INPUT DEVICES; LARGE FORMAT; MECHANICAL FORCE; MEDICAL; TABLETOP;

SURFACES;

EID: 84900446016     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2556288.2557172     Document Type: Conference Paper

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