Development and Evaluation of a Thermal Display for Material Identification and Discrimination

ACM Transactions on Applied Perception

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 13-

  Ho, Hsin Ni ^a   Jones, Lynettea ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

Design; Experimentation; hand object interaction; Haptic interface; Human factors; material identification; Measurement; Performance; semi infinite body model; Theory; thermal display; thermal feedback; thermal perception; virtual environment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84988664908     PISSN: 15443558     EISSN: 15443965     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1265957.1265962     Document Type: Article

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