Integrating tactile feedback technologies into home-based telerehabilitation: opportunities and challenges in light of COVID-19 pandemic

S Handelzalts, G Ballardini, C Avraham… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for advancing the development and
implementation of novel means for home-based telerehabilitation in order to enable remote …

Survey on Haptic Feedback through Sensory Illusions in Interactive Systems

M Kurzweg, Y Weiss, MO Ernst, A Schmidt… - ACM Computing …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
A growing body of work in human-computer interaction (HCI), particularly work on haptic
feedback and haptic displays, relies on sensory illusions, which is a phenomenon …

Data-driven sparse skin stimulation can convey social touch information to humans

M Salvato, SR Williams, CM Nunez… - IEEE Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
During social interactions, people use auditory, visual, and haptic cues to convey their
thoughts, emotions, and intentions. Due to weight, energy, and other hardware constraints, it …

TickleFoot: Design, development and evaluation of a novel foot-tickling mechanism that can evoke laughter

DS Elvitigala, R Boldu, S Nanayakkara… - ACM Transactions on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Tickling is a type of sensation that is associated with laughter, smiling, or other similar
reactions. Psychology research has shown that tickling and laughter can significantly relieve …

Investigating social haptic illusions for tactile stroking (SHIFTS)

CM Nunez, BN Huerta, AM Okamura… - 2020 IEEE Haptics …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A common and effective form of social touch is stroking on the forearm. We seek to replicate
this stroking sensation using haptic illusions. This work compares two methods that provide …

Subtle contact nuances in the delivery of human-to-human touch distinguish emotional sentiment

S Xu, C Xu, S McIntyre, H Olausson… - IEEE transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We routinely communicate distinct social and emotional sentiments through nuanced touch.
For example, we might gently hold another's arm to offer a sense of calm, yet intensively …

Haptomapping: Visuo-haptic augmented reality by embedding user-imperceptible tactile display control signals in a projected image

Y Miyatake, T Hiraki, D Iwai… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article proposes HaptoMapping, a projection-based visuo-haptic augmented reality
(VHAR) system, that can render visual and haptic content independently and present …

Assignment of a Vibration to a Graphical Object Induced by Resonant Frequency

M Kurzweg, S Linke, Y Weiss, M Letter… - IFIP Conference on …, 2023 - Springer
This work aims to provide tactile feedback when touching elements on everyday surfaces
using their resonant frequencies. We used a remote speaker to bring a thin wooden surface …

Creating tactile motion

T Seizova-Cajić, X Fuchs, J Brooks - Somatosensory Research Methods, 2023 - Springer
Interactions with the world and between our own body parts often result in motion across the
skin, and sensory processing of this motion is of interest to both basic and applied …

Affective ratings of vibrotactile signals in older adults with and without history of stroke

CE Seim, B Ritter, KE Flavin… - 2021 IEEE World …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Emerging research seeks to apply vibrotactile stimulation in physical therapy to improve
diminished limb function. However, for these systems to be accepted, prospective users …