Exploratory Strategies in Haptic Softness Discrimination Are Tuned to Achieve High Levels of Task Performance

IEEE Transactions on Haptics

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 242-252

  Kaim, Lukas ^a   Drewing, Knut ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

haptic; Human perception; tactile

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008049860     PISSN: 19391412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TOH.2011.19     Document Type: Article

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