Haptic Discrimination of Force Direction and the Influence of Visual Information

ACM Transactions on Applied Perception

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 125-135

  Barbagli, Federico ^a   Salisbury, Ken ^a   Ho, Cristy ^b   Spence, Charles ^b   Tan, Hong Z ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c Haptic Interface Research Laboratory   (Japan)

Author keywords

Discrimination threshold; Experimentation; Force direction; Haptic and visual; Haptic rendering; Human Factors; Interaction; Psychophysics

Indexed keywords

EID: 85010564703     PISSN: 15443558     EISSN: 15443965     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1141897.1141901     Document Type: Article

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