TY - GEN
T1 - Design of a wearable device for low frequency haptic stimulation
AU - Amiguet, Jerome
AU - Sessa, Salvatore
AU - Bleuler, Hannes
AU - Takanishi, Atsuo
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 IEEE.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Haptic devices has been an expanding field in recent years. Most existing wearable haptic devices focus on delivering vibrations, and can generally be used only on one body part, most often the hands. The wearable haptic device presented in this paper presents two innovations compared to the state of the art: it can elicit stimuli such as stroking, brushing or tickling the skin with an exchangeable tool, and it can be attached on several body parts, with a focus on the hairy skin. The device has been tested in a cue recognition experiment to prove its usability. In a second experiment, an embedded force sensor is used to measure the force applied by the tool on the skin and eventually detect if the tool-tip is moving on the skin or not. The results show that the device can be used for human studies and that motor stall condition can be deduced from the force profile periodicity.
AB - Haptic devices has been an expanding field in recent years. Most existing wearable haptic devices focus on delivering vibrations, and can generally be used only on one body part, most often the hands. The wearable haptic device presented in this paper presents two innovations compared to the state of the art: it can elicit stimuli such as stroking, brushing or tickling the skin with an exchangeable tool, and it can be attached on several body parts, with a focus on the hairy skin. The device has been tested in a cue recognition experiment to prove its usability. In a second experiment, an embedded force sensor is used to measure the force applied by the tool on the skin and eventually detect if the tool-tip is moving on the skin or not. The results show that the device can be used for human studies and that motor stall condition can be deduced from the force profile periodicity.
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U2 - 10.1109/ROBIO.2015.7418783
DO - 10.1109/ROBIO.2015.7418783
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84964426783
T3 - 2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, IEEE-ROBIO 2015
SP - 297
EP - 302
BT - 2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, IEEE-ROBIO 2015
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, IEEE-ROBIO 2015
Y2 - 6 December 2015 through 9 December 2015
ER -