Paper:
Development of Directional Display Using Forearm Twisting and Human Navigation Experiments
Masamichi Sakaguchi*, Utako Kanuka**, Shigeyuki Shimachi**,
and Akira Hashimoto**
*Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Gokiso-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8555, Japan
**Department of Mechanical Engineering, Iwate University, 4-3-5 Ueda, Morioka, Iwate 020-8551, Japan
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