Design of a wearable skin stretch cutaneous device for the upper limb

IEEE Haptics Symposium, HAPTICS

Volumn 2016-April, Issue , 2016, Pages 14-20

  Chinello, Francesco ^a,b   Pacchierotti, Claudio ^b   Tsagarakis, Nikos G ^b   Prattichizzo, Domenico ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY;

CUTANEOUS SENSATION; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; FEEDBACK SYSTEMS; NAVIGATION IN FORMATION; SKIN STRETCH; UPPER LIMBS;

NAVIGATION;

EID: 84966737853     PISSN: 23247347     EISSN: 23247355     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HAPTICS.2016.7463149     Document Type: Conference Paper

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