Discrimination and Identification of Finger Joint-Angle Position Using Active Motion

ACM Transactions on Applied Perception

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 10-

  Tan, Hong Z ^a   Srinivasan, Mandayam A ^b   Reed, Charlotte M ^b   Durlach, Nathaniel I ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

discrimination; Experimentation; haptic perception; Human Factors; identification; JND; Joint position; kinesthesis; Performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84978901588     PISSN: 15443558     EISSN: 15443965     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1265957.1265959     Document Type: Article

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