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References for Vibrotactile Feedback

(Because of copyright laws, the links to the actual papers are only available to our research group members. You can probably find most of them on the Web though, if you look hard enough!)

Akamatsu, M., Mackenzie, I.S. "Movement Characteristics Using a Mouse with Tactile and Force Feedback," Int'l J. of Human-Comp. Studies, 1996. 45, pp. 483-493.
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Amanat, I.Z., Riviere, C.N., and Thakor, N.V. "Teleoperation of a dexterous robotic hand using vibrotactile feedback," Proc. of 16th Annual Int'l. Conf. of the IEEE Eng. in Med. and Bio. Soc., 1994, pp. 1059-1060.
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Auer, E.T. Jr., Bernstein, L.E., Coulter, D.C. "Temporal and spatio-temporal vibrotactile displays for voice fundamental frequency: an initial evaluation of a new vibrotactile speech perception aid with normal-hearing and hearing-impaired individuals," J. of the Acoustical Soc. of America. 104(4), 1998, pp. 2477-2489.
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Bensmaďa, S.J. and Hollins, M. "Complex tactile waveform discrimination," J. of the Acoustical Soc. of America, 2000, 108(3), pp. 1236-1245.
Brooks, F., Ouh-Young, M., Batter, J., and Kilpatrick, P. "Project GROPE - Haptic displays for scientific visualization," Proc. of ACM SIGGRAPH '90, 24(4), 1990, pp. 177-185.
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Burdea, G., Zhuang, J., Roskos, E., Silver, D., and Langrana, N. "A portable dexterous master with force feedback," Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, 1992, 1(1), pp. 18-28.
Campbell, C., Zhai, S., May, K., Maglio, P. "What You Feel Must Be What You See: Adding Tactile Feedback to the Trackpoint", Proc. of INTERACT'99: 7th IFIP Conf. on Human Comp. Interaction, 1999, pp. 383-390.
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Cheng, L.-T., Kazman, R., and Robinson, J. "Vibrotactile feedback in delicate virtual reality operations," Proc. of the Fourth ACM Int'l. Conf. on Multimedia, 1996, pp. 243-251.
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Cohen, J., Niwa, M., Lindeman, R.W., Noma, H., Yanagida, Y., Hosaka, K., "A Closed-Loop Tactor Frequency Control System for Vibrotactile Feedback," to appear as an interactive poster at ACM CHI 2005, Apr. 2-7, 2005, Portland, Oregon, USA.
Craig, J.C. "Vibrotactile pattern isolation/integration," Perception & Psychophysics, 1998, 60(5), pp. 888-899.
DiFranco, D.E., Beauregard, G.L., and Srinivasan, M.A. "The effect of auditory cues on the haptic perception of stiffness in virtual environments", Proc. of the 6th Ann. Symp. on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environments and Teleoperator Systems, ASME/IMECE, DSC-Vol. 61, 1997, pp. 17-22.
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Fletcher, R. "Force transduction materials for human-technology interfaces," IBM Sys. J., 1996, 35(3&4), pp. 630-638.
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Fritz, J.P. "Haptic Rendering Techniques for Scientific Visualization," MSEE Thesis, University of Delaware, 1996.
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Fritz, J.P., and Barner, K.E. "Stochastic Models for Haptic Textures," Proc. of Photonics East '96 - the SPIE's International Symposium on Intelligent Systems and Advanced Manufacturing, Boston, MA, November, 1996.
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Fritz, J.P., and Barner, K.E. "Design of a Haptic Graphing System," Proc. of the 19th RESNA Conference, Salt Lake City, UT, June, 1996.
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Gibson, J. "Observations on Active Touch," Psychological Review, 1962, 69(6), pp. 477-491.
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Hernández, A., Zainos, A., and Ranulfo Romo, R., "Neuronal correlates of sensory discrimination in the somatosensory cortex," Proc. of the National Academy of Sciences, PNAS 97, 1997, pp. 6191-6196.
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Hinckley, K., Pausch, R., Goble, J.C., and Kassell, N.F. "Passive real-world interface props for neurosurgical visualization," Proc. of ACM CHI '94, 1994, pp. 452-458.
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Hodges, L.F., Rothbaum, B.O., Kooper, R., Opdyke, D., Meyer, T., North, M., de Graaff, J.J., and Williford, J. "Virtual environments for treating the fear of heights," IEEE Computer, 1995, 28(7), pp. 27-34.
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Hoffman, H.G., Hollander, A., Schroder, K., Rousseau, S., and Furness, T. "Physically touching and tasting virtual objects enhances the realism of virtual environments," Virtual Reality: Research, Development, and Application, 1998, 3, pp. 226-234.
Howe, R.D. "A force-reflecting teleoperated hand system for the study of tactile sensing in precision manipulation," Proc. of the 1992 IEEE Int'l. Conf. on Robotics and Autom., 1992, vol. 2, pp. 1321-1326.
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Howe, R.D., Kontarinis, D.A., and Peine, W.J. "Shape memory alloy actuator controller design for tactile displays," Proc. of the 34th IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control, 1995, vol. 4, pp. 3540-3544.
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Hughes, R.G., Forrest, A.R. "Perceptualisation using a tactile mouse," Proc. Vis. '96, 1996, pp. 181-186.
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Iwata, H. "Artificial reality with force-feedback: Development of desktop virtual space with compact master manipulator," Computer Graphics, 1990, 24(4), pp. 165-170.
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Jarmul, E., Nunziata, E., Perez, C., Lipetz, L.E., and Weed, H.R., "Investigation of significant interface parameters involved in the electromechanical transfer of tactile information," Proc. of the 1989 15th Annual Northeast Bioeng. Conf., 1989, pp. 43-44.
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Kaczmarek, K.A., Webster, J.G., Bach-y-Rita, P., and Tompkins, W.J., "Electrotactile and vibrotactile displays for sensory substitution systems," IEEE Trans. on Biomed. Eng., 38(1), Jan. 1991, pp. 1-16.
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Kontarinis, D.A., and Howe, R.D. "Tactile display of vibratory information in teleoperation and virtual environments," Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, 1995, 4(4), pp. 387-402.
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Kontarinis, D.A., Son, J.S., Peine, W.J., and Howe, R.D. "A tactile shape sensing and display system for teleoperated manipulation," Proc. of the Int'l. Conf. on Robotics and Autom., 1995, pp. 641-646.
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Kuc, Z., "A bidirectional vibrotactile communication system: tactual display design and attainable data rates," Proc. of CompEuro '89, VLSI and Computer Peripherals, VLSI and Microelectronic Applications in Intelligent Peripherals and Their Interconnection Networks, 1989, pp. 2/101-2/103.
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Lee, K. and Kwon, D.-S., "Sensors and actuators of wearable haptic master device for the disabled," Proc. of IEEE/RSJ Int'l Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Sys. (IROS 2000), vol. 1, 2000, pp. 371-376.
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Lindeman, R.W., Sibert, J.L., Mendez-Mendez, E., Patil, S., Phifer, D., "Effectiveness of Directional Vibrotactile Cuing on a Building-Clearing Task," to appear in Proc. of ACM CHI 2005, Apr. 2-7, 2005, Portland, Oregon, USA.
Lindeman, R.W., Yanagida, Y., Noma, H., Hosaka, K., Kuwabara, K., "Design of a Wireless Tactor System for Haptic Feedback in Virtual Reality," to appear as a poster in Proc. of IEEE Virtual Reality 2005, Mar. 12-16, 2005, Bonn, Germany.
Lindeman, R.W., Page, R., Yanagida, Y., Sibert, J.L., "Towards Full-Body Haptic Feedback: The Design and Deployment of a Spatialized Vibrotactile Feedback System," Proc. of ACM Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST) 2004, Nov. 10-12, 2004, Hong Kong, China, pp. 146-149.
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Lindeman, R.W., Sibert, J.L., Lathan, C.E., Vice, J.M., "The Design and Deployment of a Wearable Vibrotactile Feedback System," Proc. of the 8th IEEE Int'l Symp. on Wearable Computers, Oct. 31-Nov. 3, 2004, Arlington, VA, USA, pp. 56-59.
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Lindeman, R.W., "Virtual Contact: The Continuum from Purely Visual to Purely Physical," Proc. of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES), Oct. 13-17, 2003, Denver, Colorado, USA. pp. 2103-2107.
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Lindeman, R.W., Yanagida, Y., Sibert, J.L., Lavine, R., "Effective Vibrotactile Cueing in a Visual Search Task," Proc. of the Ninth IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT 2003), Sep. 1-5, 2003, Zuerich, Switzerland, pp. 89-96.
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Lindeman, R.W., Cutler, J.R., "Controller Design for a Wearable, Near-Field Haptic Display," Proc. of the 11th Symp. on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems (2003), pp. 397-403.
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Lindeman, R.W., Yanagida, Y., "Empirical Studies for Effective Near-Field Haptics in Virtual Environments," Proc. of IEEE Virtual Reality 2003, pp. 287-288.
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Lindeman, R.W., Templeman, J.N., Sibert, J.L., Cutler, J.R., "Handling of Virtual Contact in Immersive Virtual Environments: Beyond Visuals," Virtual Reality, 6(3), 2002, pp. 130-139.
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Lindeman, R.W. and Templeman, J.N., "Vibrotactile feedback for handling virtual contact in immersive virtual environments," Usability Evaluation and Interface Design: Cognitive Engineering, Intelligent Agents and Virtual Reality, Smith, M.J., Salvendy, G., Harris, D., and Koubek, R.J. (Eds.), Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, New Jersey, 2001, pp. 21-25.
(Proc. of the 9th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, New Orleans, USA, August 5-10, 2001.)
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Massimino, M.J., and Sheridan, T.B. "Sensory substitution for force feedback in teleoperation," Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, 1993, 2(4), pp. 344-352.
Milnes, P., Stevens, J.C., Brown, B.H., Summers, I.R., and Cooper, P.G., "Use of micro-controller in a tactile aid for the hearing impaired," Proc. of the 18th Annual Int'l Conf. of the IEEE Eng. in Med. and Bio. Soc., vol. 1, 1997, pp. 413-414.
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Mine, M., Brooks, F., and Séquin, C. "Moving objects in space: Exploiting proprioception in virtual-environment interaction," Proc. of ACM SIGGRAPH '97, 1997, pp. 19-26.
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Molet, T., Boulic, R., Rezzonico, S., and Thalmann, D., "An architecture for immersive evaluation of complex human tasks," IEEE trans. on Robotics and Autom., 15(3), Jun. 1999, pp. 475-485.
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Moy, G., Singh, U., Tan, E., and Fearing, R.S. "Human Psychophysics for Teletaction System Design", Haptics-e, 1(3), http://www.haptics-e.org/, 2000, pp. 1-20.
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Niki, T., and Shiomojo, M., "Simple haptic display and object data design," Proc. of IEEE/RSJ Int'l Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Sys. (IROS 2000), vol. 2, 2000, pp. 967-972.
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Okamura, A.M., Dennerlein, J.T., and Howe, R.D. "Vibration feedback models for virtual environments," Proc. of the IEEE Int'l. Conf. on Robotics and Autom., 1998, pp. 674-679.
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Okamura, A.M., Hage, M.W., Cutkosky, M.R., and Dennerlein, J.T. "Improving Reality-Based Models for Vibration Feedback," American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Dynamic Systems and Control Division, 69(2), 2000, pp. 1117-1124.
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Perez, C.A., and Weed, H.R., "Optimization of the relationship between pulse width, pulse frequency and sensation thresholds for vibrotactile information transfer," Proc. of the Annual Int'l Conf. of the IEEE Eng. in Med. and Bio. Soc., vol. 13, 1991, pp. 1805-1806.
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Perez, C.A., Salinas, C., and Santibanez, A., "Vibrotactile sensation thresholds related to parameters of a pulse burst stimulus," Proc. of the 22nd Annual Int'l Conf. of the IEEE Eng. in Med. and Bio. Soc., vol. 2, 2000, pp. 1570-1572.
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Pohja, S. "Survey of Studies on Tactile Senses," SICS Technical Report R96-02, ISRN SICS-R--96/02-SE, ISSN 0283-3638, 1996, pp. 1-13.
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Ram, S., and Sharf, J., "The people sensor: A mobility aid for the visually impaired," Second Int'l Symp. on Wearable Computers, Digest of Papers, 1998, pp. 166-167.
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Reeder, R.A., "Detecting knee hyperextension using goniometric inclinometer sensing with vibrotactile feedback," Proc. of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Tech. Conf., (IMTC/98), vol. 2, 1998, pp. 863-867.
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Robles-De-La-Torre, G. and Hayward, V., "Virtual surfaces and haptic shape perception," Proc. of the Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems Symposium, ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition 2000, Orlando, Florida, USA.
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Ross, D., and Blasch, B. "Wearable interfaces for orientation and wayfinding," Proc. of the 4th Int'l ACM conf. on assistive technologies, 2000, pp. 193-200.
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Rovan, J., and Hayward, V. "Typology of tactile sounds and their synthesis in gesture-driven computer music performance," Trends in Gestural Control of Music, Wanderley, M., and Battier, M. (Eds.), Editions IRCAM, Paris, 2000.
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Rupert, A. "An instrumentation solution for reducing spatial disorientation mishaps," IEEE Eng. in Med. and Bio., 19(2), March/April, 2000, pp. 71-80.
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Salisbury, K., Brock, D., Massie, T., Swarup, N., and Zilles, C. "Haptic rendering: programming touch interaction with virtual objects," Proc. of the 1995 Symp. on Interactive 3D Graphics, 1995, pp. 123-130.
Snibbe, S., MacLean, K. "Haptic Techniques for Media Control," CHI Letters (Proc. UIST 2001), 2001, 3(2), pp. 199-208.
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Srinivasan, M.A., Basdogan, C., and Ho, C.H. "Haptic Interactions in Virtual Worlds: Progress and Prospects", Proc. of Proceedings of the International Conference on Smart Materials, Structures, and Systems, Bangalore, India, 1999.
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Srinivasan, M.A., Beauregard, G.L., and Brock, D. "The Impact of Visual Information on the Haptic Perception of Stiffness in Virtual Environments", Proc. of the 5th Ann. Symp. on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems, IMECE, Atlanta, GA, DSC-Vol:58, 1996, pp. 555-559.
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Srinivasan, M.A. "Haptic Interfaces," Virtual Reality: Scientific and Technical Challenges, in N. Durlach and A. Mavor (Eds.) Report to the Committee on Virtual Reality Research and Development, National Research Council, National Academy Press, Washington, DC, 1994, pp. 161-187.
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Tan, H.Z., Durlach, N.I., Reed, C.M., and Rabinowitz, W.M. "Information transmission with a multi-finger tactual display," Perception & Psychophysics, 1999, 61(6), pp. 993-1008.
Tan, H.Z. Durlach, N.I., Rabinowitz, W.M. and Reed, C.M. "Information transmission with a multi-finger tactual display," Proc. of Int'l Sensory Aid Conf., May 28-31, Sint-Michielsgestel, The Netherlands, 1996.
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Tan, H.Z. and Rabinowitz, W.M. "A new multi-finger tactual display," J. of the Acoustical Soc. of America, 99(4), Pt. 2, pp. 2477-2485.
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Van Erp, J.B.F., Van Veen, H.H.C., Jansen, C., and Dobbins, T. "Waypoint Navigation with a Vibrotactile Waist Belt," ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, 2(2), April 2005, pp. 106-117.
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Van Erp, J.B.F. and Werkhoven, P.J. "Vibro-tactile and visual asynchronies: Sensitivity and consistency," Perception, 33(1), 2004, pp. 103-111.
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Wellman, P. and Howe, R.D. "Towards realistic vibrotactile display in virtual environments," in T. Alberts (Ed.) Proc. of the ASME Dynamics Sys. and Control Division, Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Sys., 1995, DSC-Vol. 57-2, pp. 713-718.
Wu, W.-C., Basdogan, C., and Srinivasan, M.A. "Visual, Haptic and Bimodal Perception of Size and Stiffness in Virtual Environments", Proc. of the 8th Ann. Symp. on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems, ASME/IMECE, Nashville, TN, DSC-Vol:67, 1999, pp. 19-26.
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Yanagida, Y., Kakita, M., Lindeman, R.W., Kume, Y., Tetsutani, N., "Vibrotactile Letter Reading Using a Low-Resolution Tactor Array," Proc. of the 12th Symp. on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems (2004), pp. 400-406.
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