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International Conference on Human Haptic Sensing and Touch Enabled Computer Applications

EuroHaptics 2018: Haptics: Science, Technology, and Applications pp 49–57Cite as

A Case of Perceptual Completion in Spatio-Temporal Tactile Space

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We reproduced a perceptual phenomenon where a tactile stimulus moving on the fingertip jumps instantly over a gap but is felt as if the space of the gap was perceptually obliterated. This phenomenon was recently demonstrated on the forearm using brushes. On the fingertip, we elicited this effect using virtual edges and measured psychometric response curves obtained by varying the time taken by the moving edge to traverse the gap between the first and the third portion of the stimulus. Most people failed to detect 2 mm gaps when the traversal time fell below 0.2 s. The gaps were consistently detected when they were traversed at same the speed as that of the moving edge in the first and third portion of the stimulus. We discuss the implications of these findings.

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Acknowledgements

This manuscript benefited significantly from insightful comments Dr. Antonio Cataldo. This work was supported by a JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number JP15H05923 (Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas, “Innovative SHITSUKSAN Science and Technology”) to H.K. and a Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorship grant to V.H.

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  1. Graduate School of Informatics and Engineering, The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan

    Seitaro Kaneko & Hiroyuki Kajimoto

  2. Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, University of London, London, UK

    Vincent Hayward

  3. Actronika SAS, Paris, France

    Vincent Hayward

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  1. University of Siena, Siena, Italy

    Domenico Prattichizzo

  2. University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

    Hiroyuki Shinoda

  3. Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA

    Hong Z. Tan

  4. Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy

    Emanuele Ruffaldi

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Kaneko, S., Kajimoto, H., Hayward, V. (2018). A Case of Perceptual Completion in Spatio-Temporal Tactile Space. 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 10893. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93445-7_5

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