Haptic Breast Palpation Using Five-Fingers Haptic Interface HIRO-II

Five Fingers Haptic Interface Robot HIRO : Design , Rendering , and Applications

Haptic interfaces are devices that allow human-machine interaction through force and touch. Combined haptic and visual interfaces have been around for decades. Yet, despite an enormous increase in research activity in the last few years, the science of haptics is still a technology in its infancy. The majority of commercially available haptic devices operate based on a principle of point intera...

Haptic Interaction Rendering Technique for HIRO: an Opposite Human Hand Haptic Interface

HIRO (Haptic Interface RObot) is a new device that enables users to interact and feel the virtual object safely. Hand interaction with virtual object requires a more elaborated model than the Haptic Interaction Point (HIP) due to the complex shape of the virtual hand. This paper describes a general haptic rendering of 3D object for hand interaction that takes in consideration the real shape and...

Haptic Interaction Rendering Technique for HIRO: an Opposite Human Hand Haptic Interface Robot

HIRO (Haptic Interface RObot) is a new device that enables users to interact and feel the virtual object safely. Hand interaction with virtual object requires a more elaborated model than the Haptic Interaction Point (HIP) due to the complex shape of the virtual hand. This paper describes a general approach called the Haptic Interaction Poly technique for haptic rendering of 3D object for hand ...

Simulation of the Admittance Control Based Haptic Interface Device

Haptic subitizing across the fingers

Numerosity judgments of small sets of items (≤ 3) are generally fast and error free, while response times and error rates increase rapidly for larger numbers of items. We investigated an efficient process used for judging small numbers of items (known as subitizing) in active touch. We hypothesized that this efficient process for numerosity judgment might be related to stimulus properties that ...