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A Tactile Feedback Glove for Reproducing Realistic Surface Roughness and Continual Lateral Stroking Perception

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Haptics: Science, Technology, and Applications (EuroHaptics 2018)

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Haptic feedback has been widely applied to many virtual reality (VR) applications and electronic products to offer more information and sensation to users. This research aims to recreate lateral stroking stimuli in a virtual environment using a wearable tactile feedback glove. Tactile perception controlling factors for laterally stroking on physical surfaces with different roughnesses were recorded. A neural network was trained to find the driving voltages for the actuators. Piezoelectric actuators were used to create realistic tactile sensations. Two experiments were conducted. One was the roughness discrimination experiment, which was used to test if the participants can match the simulated roughness with physical templates. The other experiment was the continual lateral stroking experiment, which was used to find a representation method which can give users the most realistic continual stroking sensations. User tests showed that the developed tactile feedback system can reproduce realistic surface roughness sensations.

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This research was supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan under Contract MOST 106-2221-E-002-120.

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Lin, PH., Smith, S. (2018). A Tactile Feedback Glove for Reproducing Realistic Surface Roughness and Continual Lateral Stroking Perception. In: Prattichizzo, D., Shinoda, H., Tan, H., Ruffaldi, E., Frisoli, A. (eds) Haptics: Science, Technology, and Applications. EuroHaptics 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10894. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93399-3_16

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