The Rutgers Master II-ND glove is a haptic interface designed for dextrous interactions with virtual environments. The glove provides force feedback up to 16 N each to the thumb, index, middle, and ring fingertips. It uses custom pneumatic actuators arranged in a direct-drive configuration in the palm. Unlike commercial haptic gloves, the direct-drive actuators make unnecessary cables and pulle...

This paper outlines the development of a wearable game controller incorporating vibrotacticle haptic feedback that provides a low cost, versatile and intuitive interface for controlling digital games. The device differs from many traditional haptic feedback implementation in that it combines vibrotactile based haptic feedback with gesture based input, thus becoming a two way conduit between the...

Haptic display is the process of applying forces to a human \observer" giving the sensation of touching and interacting with real physical objects. Touch is unique among the senses because it allows simultaneous exploration and manipulation of an environment. A haptic display system has three main components. The rst is the haptic interface, or display device generally some type of electro-mech...

Minimally invasive surgery and therapy is popularly used both for diagnosis and for surgery. Teleoperation, a promising surgery, is used to protect the surgeon from X-ray radiation as well as to address the problem of lacking experienced surgeons in remote rural areas. However, surgery success ratio should be considered because the surgeon was separated from the patient remotely. A most effecti...

The concept of a new mobile haptic interface for unconstrained bimanual manipulation is presented. This device, which has been developed at the High-Fidelity Telepresence and Teleaction Research Centre, Munich, Germany, allows locomotion and haptic interaction at the same time. In contrast to most existing haptic interfaces, it is therefore not restricted to desktop applications but also enable...

This paper presents the development and testing of a haptic interface compatible with a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) environment for neuroscience human motor control studies. A carbon fiber extension enables us to use the widely accepted and available haptic device Phantom 1.5. In the first part of the paper development of the mechanical extension together with its kinematic and...

Highway-in-the-sky displays and haptic shared control could provide an easy-to-use control interface for non-expert pilots. In this paper, various display and haptic approaches are evaluated in a flight control task with a personal aerial vehicle. It is shown that a tunnel or a wall representation of the flight trajectory lead to best performance and lowest control activity and effort. Similar ...

The ability of human subjects to identify and discriminate between different-sized real objects was compared with their ability to identify and discriminate between differentsized simulated objects generated by a haptic interface. This comparison was additionally performed for cases of limited force and limited stiffness output from the haptic device, which in effect decrease the fidelity of th...

This paper presents my attempt to design an installation that investigates the bi-directional relation of affect we share with our environment. The focus is on the design of an innovative fabric prototype that presents a range of textural qualities to trigger bodily expressions, and which is also capable of perceiving such expressions itself in a tangible manner without the use of distant modes...