Improving user comfort in haptic virtual environments through gravity compensation

Proceedings - 1st Joint Eurohaptics Conference and Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems; World Haptics Conference, WHC 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 401-409

  Ott, Renaud ^a   Gutierrez, Mario ^a   Thalmann, Daniel ^a   Vexo, Frédéric ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; REMOTE CONTROL; VIRTUAL REALITY;

COMPENSATION SYSTEMS; GRAVITY COMPENSATION; HAPTIC VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; MUSCULAR ACTIVITIES; MUSCULAR FATIGUES; REAL TIME; USER COMFORTS; ZERO GRAVITY;

HAPTIC INTERFACES;

EID: 84934282625     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WHC.2005.78     Document Type: Conference Paper

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