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HAPTICS
2010
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
What Is It Like to Be a Rat? Sensory Augmentation Study
The present study examined the human ability to learn a new sensory modality, specifically "whisking". An experimental apparatus containing artificial whiskers, force sen...
Avraham Saig, Amos Arieli, Ehud Ahissar
HAPTICS
2010
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Muscular Torque Can Explain Biases in Haptic Length Perception: A Model Study on the Radial-Tangential Illusion
In haptic length perception biases occur that have previously been shown to depend on stimulus orientation and stimulus length. We propose that these biases arise from the muscular...
Nienke B. Debats, Idsart Kingma, Peter J. Beek, Je...
HAPTICS
2010
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
A New Coupling Scheme for Haptic Rendering of Rigid Bodies Interactions Based on a Haptic Sub-world Using a Contact Graph
Interactions with virtual worlds using the sense of touch, called haptic rendering, have natural applications in many domains such as health or industry. For an accurate and realis...
Loeiz Glondu, Maud Marchal, Georges Dumont
HAPTICS
2010
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
The Influence of Different Haptic Environments on Time Delay Discrimination in Force Feedback
Time delay in haptic telepresence arising from compression or communication alters the phase characteristics of the environment impedance. This paper describes how well a human ope...
Markus Rank, Zhuanghua Shi, Hermann J. Müller...
HAPTICS
2010
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Gesture Recognition in the Haptic Creature
Touch is an important but poorly studied aspect of emotional communication. With the Haptic Creature we are investigating fundamentals of affective touch. This small robot senses t...
Jonathan Chang, Karon E. MacLean, Steve Yohanan
HAPTICS
2010
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Force-Based Calibration of a Particle System for Realistic Simulation of Nonlinear and Viscoelastic Soft Tissue Behavior
We present a new approach for realistic visio-haptic simulation of nonlinear and viscoelastic behavior of an organ tissue using a particle model. The spring and damper coefficients...
Bektas Baybora Baran, Cagatay Basdogan
HAPTICS
2010
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Online Intention Recognition in Computer-Assisted Teleoperation Systems
Limitations of state-of-the-art teleoperation systems can be compensated by using shared-control teleoperation architectures that provide haptic assistance to the human operator. T...
Nikolay Stefanov, Angelika Peer, Martin Buss
HAPTICS
2010
IEEE
13 years 12 months ago
Haptic Assistance in Virtual Environments for Motor Rehabilitation
This paper presents the MIMICS MMS rehabilitation system with a virtual rehabilitation task that includes several modes of haptic assistance. We observed the influence of these dif...
Jaka Ziherl, Domen Novak, Andrej Olensek, Marko Mu...
HAPTICS
2010
IEEE
14 years 11 days ago
Haptic Feedback of Piconewton Interactions with Optical Tweezers
Haptic feedback for micro- and nanomanipulation is a research area of growing importance with many potential applications in micro- and biotechnology. Past research often involves ...
Cécile Pacoret, Arvid Bergander, Stephane R...