A Novel Method to Generate Amplitude-Frequency Modulated Vibrotactile Stimulation

IEEE Transactions on Haptics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 3-12

  Dosen, Strahinja ^a   Ninu, Andrei ^a,b   Yakimovich, Terris ^b   Dietl, Hans ^b   Farina, Dario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b Otto Bock HealthCare GmbH   (Austria)

Author keywords

Haptic interfaces; human computer interaction; human robot interaction; vibrations

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HAPTIC INTERFACES; HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTION; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; ROBOTS; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

AMPLITUDE FREQUENCY; HUMAN MACHINE INTERFACE; MULTIMODAL FEEDBACK; NATURAL INTERACTIONS; PHYSICAL MEASUREMENT; STIMULATION PATTERN; VIBRATIONS; VIBRO-TACTILE PATTERNS;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 84963801016     PISSN: 19391412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TOH.2015.2497229     Document Type: Article

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