Designing skin-dragging haptic motions for wearables

Je, Seungwoo; Choi, Okyu; Choi, Kee‐Hyun; Lee, Minkyeong; Suk, Hyeon‐Jeong; Chan, Liwei; Bianchi, Andrea

doi:10.1145/3123021.3123050

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“…Common technologies for tactile stimulation include electrostatic (which reproduces friction), vibrotactile (pulsed or sustained vibration), temperature shift system (for recreating temperature changes), pneumatic pressure, direct finger pressure and others [8]. The design of new actuators provides new means of stimulating the body, for example, the skin-dragging haptic [9] for recreating textures, an electrotactile display [10] for activating the sensory nerves in the skin and the combination of mechanical and electrical stimulation [11,12] for interactions with the virtual world.…”

Section: Haptic Devices and Their Benefits To The Societymentioning

confidence: 99%

TouchYou: A wearable touch sensor and stimulator for using our own body as a remote sex interface

Gomes

2020

Paladyn, Journal of Behavioral Robotics

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AbstractIn this article, we present TouchYou, a pair of wearable interfaces that enable affective touch interactions with people at long-distance. Through a touch-sensitive interface, which works by touch, pressure and capacitance, the body becomes the own input for stimulating the other body, which has a stimulation interface that enables the feeling of being touched. The person receives an electrical muscle stimulation, thermal and mechanical stimulation that react depending on the touch sensed by the first interface. By using the TouchYou, people can stimulate each other, using their own body, not only for sexual relations at a distance but for the production of affection and another way of feeling. We discuss the importance of the touch for human relationships, the current state of the art in haptic interfaces and how the technology can be used for the affection remote transmission. We present the design process of the TouchYou sensitive and stimulation interfaces, with a contribution of a method for developing custom touch sensors, we explore usage scenarios for the technology, including sex toys and sex robots and we present the concept of using the body as a remote sex interface.

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Section: Haptic Devices and Their Benefits To The Societymentioning

confidence: 99%

TouchYou: A wearable touch sensor and stimulator for using our own body as a remote sex interface

Gomes

2020

Paladyn, Journal of Behavioral Robotics

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“…A ring is a reasonable shape to use to ground the reaction force. There are relevant studies on the development of tactile devices employing a ring shape to achieve high wearability [38], [39], [40], [41]. However, these devices are not currently applicable to surgical situations because of the disadvantages related to the use of electrical elements.…”

Section: Design Conceptmentioning

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A Pneumatic Tactile Ring for Instantaneous Sensory Feedback in Laparoscopic Tumor Localization

Fukuda

Tanaka

Kappers

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IEEE Trans. Haptics

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We aim to achieve intraoperative localization of an early-stage gastric tumor that cannot be visually detected during laparoscopic surgery. In this study, we developed and evaluated a pneumatic tactile ring, which is a clinically applicable tactile device to provide instantaneous feedback from a tactile sensor directly manipulated by a surgeon. It was designed to be worn on the finger of the manipulating hand and to present pressure to the finger pad. It is lightweight, cost-effective, disposable, and sterilizable. We also developed a compact pneumatic drive unit to control the pressure and investigated its fundamental performance. The bandwidth of the pressure control was at least 1.3 Hz with a controllable range of up to 79.7 kPa. Moreover, a psychophysical experiment was performed to obtain the Weber ratio of the pressure and evaluate the effectiveness of the instantaneous tactile feedback of the sensor output through the tactile ring. The Weber ratio was 0.40 at the reference pressure of 22.7 kPa. The provided tactile feedback significantly reduced the absolute localization error and increased participants' confidence in their answers. It was shown that the tactile feedback through the ring is effective in laparoscopic tumor localization.

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