Touch as a communicative sense: introduction.
A brief survey is made of some of the threads of research and theory that have converged upon the problems of application of the touch sense to the task of substituting for the hearing process.
D001766:Blindness / Q000534:rehabilitation; D003142:Communication; D003638:Deafness / Q000534:rehabilitation; D006801:Humans; D012682:Sensory Aids; D012879:Skin Physiological Phenomena; D014110:Touch