Vibrotactile
via: google.com
Immerison
http://www.immersion.com/
I Feel Pixel
http://www.ifeelpixel.com/
MIT Touch Lab
http://touchlab.mit.edu/oldresearch/index.html
John Hopkins University
http://www.haptics.me.jhu.edu/research/
USC's Integrated Media Systems Center
http://imsc.usc.edu/haptics/projects.html
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Tennis for the visually impaired
http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/006249.php
Tennis Sensation is a tennis game that allows a wide variety of users, particularly the visually impaired, to compete fairly.
It uses spatial (3D) audio, to represent sounds at locations in space, enabling the user to locate the virtual ball. The handle of the "racquet" shows correct orientation and grip through contours and materials.
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Cyber grasp, pinch, squeeze and throw
http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/005814.php
Stroke patients who face months of rehabilitation to regain the use of impaired limbs may benefit from new haptics systems developed at the University of Southern California. The applications are challenging stroke patients to grasp, pinch, squeeze, throw and push their way to recovery. "Haptics, which adds the sense of touch to 3-D computing, lets stroke patients interact with virtual worlds by feel," said Margaret McLaughlin. "The big advantage is that we can control the environment and design cyber tasks that target each patient's impairment."
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Human to chicken pet touching through the net
http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/003825.php
With Poultry Internet, the Mixed Reality Lab in Singapore blends the Internet, 3D, sensors, haptics, cybernetics and augmented reality to allow a pet kept in a backyard to feel a whole body fondling by its owner who is located remotely.
Poultry Internet consists of two Systems connected in real time through the Internet:
- the Office System, where the pet owner has a mechanical system with a chicken doll on top of it. Inside the body of the doll are sensors sensitive to touch, they transmit the touch signal to the real chicken. Hence, the doll in the Office actually represents the real chicken in the Backyard.
- a Backyard System, where the chicken is kept with a few web-cams around it. The chicken wears an electronic jacket, which, when activated, will create vibration and bring the sense of being touched and massaged. The jacket has also small sensors which sense the chicken�s legs movement.
The owner can put on a goggle, and see the 3D live image of the chicken. Best part is that s/he can also put on a special shoe with electric sensors, and as the chicken walks in the Backyard, the owner will feel his/her own foot having a mild electrically stimulated sensation.
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Computers with a sense of touch
http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/003825.php
The Wall Street Journal has an interesting article on the technology behind haptics, derived from the Greek word meaning "to touch". "A group of science museums in the US is showing off one form of the technology. The system, dubbed the Internet Arm Wrestling Challenge, uses aluminum arms and hands connected by a series of rods and gears to computer servers linked to the Internet. Visitors looking for a test of strength sit in front of a touch-screen monitor and ask the computer to look for a potential opponent at another museum. If one is available, his or her picture appears on the screen via streaming Internet video, the two wrestlers grip the metal hands and the computer starts the contest".
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Interpersonal Wireless and Tactile Interface
http://yg.typepad.com/flocking/
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A Shoulder Pad Insert VibroTactile Display
http://wearables.unisa.edu.au/projects/EJacket/Papers/spad-iswc2003.pdf
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