Soft wearable thermo+touch haptic interface for virtual reality
Summary: Touch is an inherent source of tactile sensation in everyday life, followed by vision and audition. For rich tactile feedback, multimodal haptic feedback is necessary because a single touch simultaneously excites multiple types of tactile receptors. In this paper, we present a soft wearable...
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| description | Summary: Touch is an inherent source of tactile sensation in everyday life, followed by vision and audition. For rich tactile feedback, multimodal haptic feedback is necessary because a single touch simultaneously excites multiple types of tactile receptors. In this paper, we present a soft wearable thermotouch haptic interface (T2HI) that simultaneously and independently provides touch and thermal stimulation using only one end-effector, the thermotouch haptic actuator (T2HA). A T2HA consists of a pneumatic-based touch haptic actuator and a thermoelectric-based thermal haptic stimulator. A novel design for the harmonious integration of the two different parts with wearable air pumps was proposed. Finally, the efficacy of the T2HI with virtual reality (VR) was evaluated by a user test. In VR, users manipulated a virtual object, and the corresponding touch and thermal feedback were provided. The T2HI demonstrated that multimodal haptic feedback significantly enhances the VR engagement of users compared to single-modal feedback. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-386b4517b8294777af91fd962eea2f2f2025-08-20T02:35:05ZengElsevieriScience2589-00422024-12-01271211130310.1016/j.isci.2024.111303Soft wearable thermo+touch haptic interface for virtual realitySeohu Lee0Seongkwan Jang1Youngsu Cha2School of Electrical Engineering, Korea University, 145 Anam-ro, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul 02841, South KoreaSchool of Mechanical Engineering, Korea University, 145 Anam-ro, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul 02841, South KoreaSchool of Electrical Engineering, Korea University, 145 Anam-ro, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul 02841, South Korea; Corresponding authorSummary: Touch is an inherent source of tactile sensation in everyday life, followed by vision and audition. For rich tactile feedback, multimodal haptic feedback is necessary because a single touch simultaneously excites multiple types of tactile receptors. In this paper, we present a soft wearable thermotouch haptic interface (T2HI) that simultaneously and independently provides touch and thermal stimulation using only one end-effector, the thermotouch haptic actuator (T2HA). A T2HA consists of a pneumatic-based touch haptic actuator and a thermoelectric-based thermal haptic stimulator. A novel design for the harmonious integration of the two different parts with wearable air pumps was proposed. Finally, the efficacy of the T2HI with virtual reality (VR) was evaluated by a user test. In VR, users manipulated a virtual object, and the corresponding touch and thermal feedback were provided. The T2HI demonstrated that multimodal haptic feedback significantly enhances the VR engagement of users compared to single-modal feedback.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004224025288Natural sciencesApplied sciencesRobotics |
| spellingShingle | Seohu Lee Seongkwan Jang Youngsu Cha Soft wearable thermo+touch haptic interface for virtual reality iScience Natural sciences Applied sciences Robotics |
| title | Soft wearable thermo+touch haptic interface for virtual reality |
| title_full | Soft wearable thermo+touch haptic interface for virtual reality |
| title_fullStr | Soft wearable thermo+touch haptic interface for virtual reality |
| title_full_unstemmed | Soft wearable thermo+touch haptic interface for virtual reality |
| title_short | Soft wearable thermo+touch haptic interface for virtual reality |
| title_sort | soft wearable thermo touch haptic interface for virtual reality |
| topic | Natural sciences Applied sciences Robotics |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004224025288 |
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