A fingertip guiding manipulator was developed as a haptic graphic display to help the visually impaired create mental images of line drawings. The latest model to be presented in this study equips dual mode fingertip-guiding function allowing either passive or active exploration. When using this manipulator, the person is assumed to pinch a knob by his/her fingertip: the knob is attached at the end of the manipulator. In the active mode, the fingertip guiding manipulator pulls his/her fingertip along line drawings. In the passive mode, it provides a kind of selective compliance, and allows the persons freely to move his/her fingertip in the only direction of the line drawings. For the sake of the dual mode function, it is expected that efficiency would be improved a lot comparing to the former model being equipped with the passive mode alone. © 2008 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
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Yusoh, S. M. N. S., Nomura, Y., Kokubo, N., Sugiura, T., Matsui, H., & Kato, N. (2008). Dual mode fingertip guiding manipulator for blind persons enabling passive/active line-drawing explorations. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 5105 LNCS, pp. 851–858). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-70540-6_126
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