Abstract
Our sense of touch is a primary means of interaction with environment. If we have to create interfaces that can communicate force information [1.1], a wide range of sizes is conceivable, capable of generating and sensing time-varying forces at a single point or a distributed array of points on a surface (Table 1.1).
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