VBD
Introduction
The VBD is a 1D laterotactile display composed of 12 stacked piezoelectric bending sheets. The amount of bending of each piezo-sheet is controlled independently of the others. The display can be mounted on a linear slider whose position is monitored by an encoder.
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Movies
This movie shows a sinusoidal wave traveling over the display. See the virtual Braille dots project page for more movies of the VBD.
Projects
References
- Levesque, V., Pasquero, J., Hayward, V., Legault, M. (2005) Display Of Virtual Braille Dots By Lateral Skin Deformation: Feasibility Study. ACM Transactions on Applied Perception. Vol. 2, Issue 2 (April 2005), pp. 132-149.
pdf - web - Pasquero, J., Levesque, V., Hayward V., and Legault, M. (2004) Display of Virtual Braille Dots by Lateral Skin Deformation: A Pilot Study. Proc. Eurohaptics 2004. Munich, Germany, June 5-7. pp.96-103.
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