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HAPTICS
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Effects of Longitudinal Skin Stretch on the Perception of Friction
This work focuses on the relative importance of skin stretch imposed on the fingerpad on the perception of friction. Perceptual data is presented from two separate tests. The fi...
Nicholas D. Sylvester, William R. Provancher
HAPTICS
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Fast and High Precision Volume Haptics
Volume haptics has shown itself an effective way of enhancing precision and speed in interaction with medical or scientific visualization. This paper presents a mixed solver appr...
Karljohan E. Lundin Palmerius
HAPTICS
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
A Visuo-Haptic Device - Telemaque - Increases Kindergarten Children's Handwriting Acquisition
The objective of the present research was to show that incorporating a visuo-haptic device ‘Telemaque’ may increase the fluency of handwriting production of cursive letters in...
R. Palluel-Germain, Florence Bara, A. Hillairet de...
HAPTICS
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Evaluation of Human Performance with Kinematic and Haptic Errors
In teleoperation systems, link flexion results in kinematic errors, such that the position mapping between the master motion and slave motion is not correct. For haptic feedback ...
Tomonori Yamamoto, Allison M. Okamura
HAPTICS
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Soft Finger Model with Adaptive Contact Geometry for Grasping and Manipulation Tasks
This paper presents a method for building analytical contact models for soft fingers. Friction constraints are derived based on general expressions for non-planar contacts of ela...
Matei T. Ciocarlie, Claire Lackner, Peter K. Allen
HAPTICS
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
T-PaD: Tactile Pattern Display through Variable Friction Reduction
In this paper we discuss the theory, design and construction of a haptic display for creating texture sensations through variations in surface friction. Ultrasonic frequency, low ...
Laura Winfield, John Glassmire, J. Edward Colgate,...
HAPTICS
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
JND Analysis of Texture Roughness Perception using a Magnetic Levitation Haptic Device
This paper describes the use of a magnetic levitation haptic device (MLHD) to study the psychophysics of texture roughness. Studies of texture roughness perception performed using...
Bertram Unger, Ralph L. Hollis, Roberta L. Klatzky
HAPTICS
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Finger Force Direction Recognition by Principal Component Analysis of Fingernail Coloration Pattern
A method based on Principal Component Analysis of the fingernail coloration pattern is presented to infer fingertip force direction during planar contact. Images from 7 subjects...
Yu Sun, John M. Hollerbach, Stephen A. Mascaro
HAPTICS
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Force Feedback is Noticeably Different for Linear versus Nonlinear Elastic Tissue Models
Realistic modeling of the interaction between surgical instruments and human organs has been recognized as a key requirement in the development of high-fidelity surgical simulato...
Sarthak Misra, Allison M. Okamura, K. T. Ramesh
HAPTICS
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Braille Display by Lateral Skin Deformation with the STReSS2 Tactile Transducer
Earlier work with a 1-D tactile transducer demonstrated that lateral skin deformation is sufficient to produce sensations similar to those felt when brushing a finger against a ...
Vincent Lévesque, Jérôme Pasqu...