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HAPTICS
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Bow Spring/Tendon Actuation for Low Cost Haptic Interfaces
This paper describes a novel bow spring and tendon actuator design for a haptic interface that provides highbandwidth force transmission to the fingers, with a large range of mot...
Dale A. Lawrence, Lucy Y. Pao, Sutha Aphanuphong
HAPTICS
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Perceptibility of Haptic Digital Watermarking of Virtual Textures
Digital watermarking refers to the process of embedding a digital code into an image, video, printed document or audio media. The code should not interfere with the normal use of ...
Domenico Prattichizzo, Mauro Barni, Hong Z. Tan, S...
HAPTICS
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Event-Based Haptics and Acceleration Matching: Portraying and Assessing the Realism of Contact
Contact in a typical haptic environment resembles the experience of tapping on soft foam, rather than on a hard object. Event-based, high-frequency transient forces must be superi...
Katherine J. Kuchenbecker, Jonathan Fiene, Gü...
HAPTICS
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Input Devices with Simple and Compact Haptic Feedback Mechanisms Driven by Finger Movement
Narrow key pitch of compact input devices confuses finger pressure at a key touch pad. To make keys more distinguishable and to improve user-friendliness of such input devices, w...
Itsuo Kumazawa
HAPTICS
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Spanning Large Workspaces Using Small Haptic Devices
Exploring large virtual environments using a small haptic device with limited-workspace capabilities is a challenging task because the user very quickly reaches the borders of the...
François Conti, Oussama Khatib
HAPTICS
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
The Effect of Fingertip Microstructures on Tactile Edge Perception
People rely on tactile edge localization to ascertain the location and structure of edges. When pressure is applied to the skin, skin mechanoreceptors convert compressive stress/s...
Gregory J. Gerling, Geb W. Thomas
HAPTICS
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
The Maxima Haptics Package -- A Tool for Symbolic Analysis of Haptics and Teleoperation
The Maxima Haptics Package is a free software package for symbolic analysis of linear models of haptic devices and teleoperators. From a mechanical model of the haptic device, the...
Göran A. V. Christiansson
HAPTICS
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Tactile Change Detection
Interest in the use of tactile information displays has grown rapidly in recent years. However, relatively little research has been conducted to explore any cognitive and/or atten...
Alberto Gallace, Hong Z. Tan, Charles Spence
HAPTICS
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Discrimination of Virtual Haptic Textures Rendered with Different Update Rates
This paper addresses the discriminability of virtual haptic textures rendered with different update rates. Two psychophysical experiments were conducted. In the first experiment, ...
Seungmoon Choi, Hong Z. Tan
HAPTICS
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
The Effect of Stiffness and Curvature on the Haptic Identification of Surfaces
We performed experiments to investigate how humans acquire an internal representation of virtual objects through the execution of reaching movements across the object surface. Sub...
Vikram S. Chib, James L. Patton, Kevin M. Lynch, F...