Interactive touch: haptic interfaces based upon hand movement patterns

ABSTRACT

Haptic interfaces use specialized hardware to stimulate the user's sense of touch. The haptic sense uses both purposeful movement and sensory receptors. Previous haptic interface designs have focused entirely on producing stimuli for the sensory receptors of the human hand and arm, without taking into account the movements used in haptic perception. This research explores interaction techniques that explicitly support various movement styles used in haptic perception. The resulting interaction techniques should support more rapid and accurate virtual object identification and discrimination.

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INDEX TERMS

Keywords:
exploratory procedures, haptic interfaces, haptic rendering, input methods, interaction techniques, virtual environments