Bringing haptics to second life

Proceedings of the 2008 Ambi-Sys Workshop on Haptic User Interfaces in Ambient Media Systems, HAS 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  De Pascale, Maurizio ^a   Mulatto, Sara ^a   Prattichizzo, Domenico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Blind vision; Blind walk; Haptics; Second life

Indexed keywords

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; USER INTERFACES; VIRTUAL REALITY;

3-D ENVIRONMENTS; BLIND WALK; CLIENT APPLICATIONS; FORCE FEEDBACK; HAPTIC TECHNOLOGY; HAPTICS; SECOND LIFE; VISUALLY IMPAIRED PEOPLE;

HAPTIC INTERFACES;

EID: 85002650024     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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