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AR
2008
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13 years 4 months ago
Biomimetic Tactile Sensor Array
The performance of robotic and prosthetic hands in unstructured environments is severely limited by their having little or no tactile information compared to the rich tactile feed...
Nicholas Wettels, Veronica J. Santos, Roland S. Jo...
AR
2008
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13 years 4 months ago
Human Perception of Pneumatic Tactile Cues
The ability to combine tactile, on-the-skin, sensory cues with the kinesthetic ones that widely available force-feedback devices are able to produce is a desirable one, opening th...
Yeongmi Kim, Ian Oakley, Jeha Ryu
MVA
1996
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13 years 6 months ago
A Support System for the Visually Disabled to Recognize 3D Objects
We have been developing a support system for the visually disabled t,o actively recognize threedimensional objects or environments, an application system of 3D computer vision. Th...
Yoshihiro Kawai, Fumiaki Tomita
HHCI
2000
13 years 8 months ago
Tactile Information Presentation in the Cockpit
This paper describes two aspects of the application of tactile information presentation in the cockpit. The first half of the paper discusses why the tactile channel might be used...
Henricus A. H. C. van Veen, Jan B. F. van Erp
AUIC
2004
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Tactons: Structured Tactile Messages for Non-Visual Information Display
Tactile displays are now becoming available in a form that can be easily used in a user interface. This paper describes a new form of tactile output. Tactons, or tactile re struct...
Stephen A. Brewster, Lorna M. Brown
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CHI
2010
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Where is my team: supporting situation awareness with tactile displays
A group of friends visiting a crowded and noisy music festival is an example of a situation where knowing the location of other people is important, but where external factors, su...
Martin Pielot, Oliver Krull, Susanne Boll
ICRA
2000
IEEE
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13 years 9 months ago
Human Tactile Spatial Sensitivity for Tactile Feedback
In this paper, we quantify several spatial capabilities of the hmnan tactile system needed for tactile feedback, or teletaction. Psychophysics experiments measure the amplitude re...
Gabriel Moy, Ujjwal Singh, Eden Tan, Ronald S. Fea...
HAPTICS
2010
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Laterotactile Rendering of Vector Graphics with the Stroke Pattern
Raised line patterns are used extensively in the design of tactile graphics for persons with visual impairments. A tactile stroke pattern was therefore developed to enable the rend...
Vincent Lévesque, Vincent Hayward
ICRA
2002
IEEE
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13 years 9 months ago
Reactive Motion Control for Human-Robot Tactile Interaction
In the field of service robotics, robots serve and assist human beings. It is natural for humans to directly interact with the robot via tactile interfaces. This paper introduces...
Thomas Wösch, Wendelin Feitin
ICRA
2002
IEEE
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13 years 9 months ago
Digital Tactile Sensing Elements Communicating through Conductive Skin Layers
In this paper, we propose a tactile sensing element that communicates through two dimensional conductive skin layers without individual wires. Each tactile element has sensors and...
Mitsuhiro Hakozaki, Hiroyuki Shinoda