We present an investigation of mechanically-actuated hand-held controllers that render the
shape of virtual objects through physical shape displacement, enabling users to feel 3D …

Tissue examination by hand remains an essential technique in clinical practice. The
effective application depends on skills in sensorimotor coordination, mainly involving haptic …

In recent years haptics has received considerable attention from the field of Human-
Computer Interactions (HCI) for its potential to provide more tangible and immersive …

Robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery has many advantages compared to conventional
open surgery and also certain drawbacks: it causes less operative trauma and faster …

This paper describes a multi-fingered haptic palpation method using stiffness feedback
actuators for simulating tissue palpation procedures in traditional and in robot-assisted …

Medical palpation is a diagnostic technique in which physicians use the sense of touch to
manipulate the soft human tissue. This can be done to enable the diagnosis of possibly life …

This paper proposes a multi-fingered palpation method which employs pneumatic haptic
feedback actuators allowing users to experience haptic sensations at multiple fingers while …

We propose the use of a haptic touchscreen to convey graphical and mathematical concepts
through aural and/or vibratory tactile feedback. We hypothesize that an important application …

Ubi-Pen: A Haptic Interface with Texture and Vibrotactile Display Page 1 56 January/February
2009 Published by the IEEE Computer Society 0272-1716/09/$25.00 © 2009 IEEE Feature …

Haptic augmented reality (AR) is an emerging research area, which targets the modulation
of haptic properties of real objects by means of virtual feedback. In our research, we explore …