Skin reading: Encoding text in a 6-channel haptic display

International Symposium on Wearable Computers, Digest of Papers

Volumn 12-16-September-2016, Issue , 2016, Pages 148-155

  Luzhnica, Granit ^a   Veas, Eduardo ^b   Pammer, Viktoria ^c  

^a KNOW CENTER   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CUYO   (Argentina)

^c GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Haptic display; HCI; Overlapped spatio temporal stimulation; User study; Vibortactile stimulation; Wearable

Indexed keywords

ENCODING (SYMBOLS); HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; WEARABLE COMPUTERS;

HAPTIC DISPLAY; SPATIO TEMPORAL; USER STUDY; VIBORTACTILE STIMULATION; WEARABLE;

WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84989321824     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2971763.2971769     Document Type: Conference Paper

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