Soft wearable thermo+touch haptic interface for virtual reality.

ABSTRACT: Touch is an inherent source of tactile sensation in everyday life, followed by vision and audition. For rich tactile feedback, multimodal haptic feedback is necessary because a single touch simultaneously excites multiple types of tactile receptors. In this paper, we present a soft wearable thermotouch haptic interface (T²HI) that simultaneously and independently provides touch and thermal stimulation using only one end-effector, the thermotouch haptic actuator (T²HA). A T²HA consists of a pneumatic-based touch haptic actuator and a thermoelectric-based thermal haptic stimulator. A novel design for the harmonious integration of the two different parts with wearable air pumps was proposed. Finally, the efficacy of the T²HI with virtual reality (VR

SUBMITTER: Lee S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11612809 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature