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Thermal Displays and Sensors

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A thermal display, which presents the user a sensation of changes in skin temperature, allows the user to touch an object in a virtual or remote environment with more realistic feeling and permits the design of stimulation in the investigation of the characteristics of human thermal perception in psychophysical experiments. As part of the thermal display, the thermal sensor, which measures the surface temperature of the human skin and environment, is important in controlling the output of the thermal display and presenting an arbitral thermal sense. This chapter briefly introduces such thermal devices mainly used as human interfaces. Furthermore, as an example of research on state-of-the-art thermal devices, this chapter presents thermal devices developed by the author: a vision-based thermal sensor using thermo-sensitive paint and a camera, a thermal display using spatially divided thermal stimuli presenting a rapid temperature change, and a head-phone-type interface that changes impressions of music and individual feelings using a thermal stimulus.

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    Katsunari Sato

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Sato, K. (2016). Thermal Displays and Sensors. In: Kajimoto, H., Saga, S., Konyo, M. (eds) Pervasive Haptics. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-55772-2_11

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