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Sara A Winges, Bornali Kundu, John F Soechting

    Joint Eurohaptics Conference and Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems : World Haptics Conference. World Haptics Conference
    |April 22, 2010
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