Figure - PMC

Skip to main content

An official website of the United States government

Here's how you know

Here's how you know

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( ) or https:// means you've safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

View full-text article in PMC

. 2019 Dec 19;13:443. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2019.00443

Search in PMC
Search in PubMed
View in NLM Catalog
Add to search

Copyright © 2019 Bharadwaj, Shaw and Goldreich.

This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

PMC Copyright notice

Apparatus. (A) Four walking paths equated for difficulty (10 turns, ~127 ft in length; S = path start; F = path finish). Lines slightly offset and colored for clarity only. (B) Vibrotactile navigational belt schematic. Each dot represents a coin motor. Vibrotactile stimulation began below the umbilicus and moved towards the left or the right (a rightward movement is shown for illustration). (C) Room layout. Each square represents a 2 ft. × 2 ft. mat. Red lines show the participant localization laser transmitter-receiver grid. (D) Systems overview. Image of person walking with cane is modified from ID 45773820 © Anastasia Popova ∣ Dreamstime.com.