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A Wearable Hand Haptic Interface to Provide Skin Stretch Feedback to the Dorsum of a Hand

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Haptic Interaction (AsiaHaptics 2018)

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Abstract

This paper presents a glove type haptic interface that can provide cutaneous feedback to the dorsum of a user’s hand. The interface consists of flex sensors, a position tracker and skin stretch modules which provides cutaneous feedback to the hand. Global position of the wrist is tracked with the position tracker and the finger posture is estimated with the flex sensors. Two skin-stretch modules installed on the dorsum of the hand behind the MCP joint of the thumb, and the middle of the index and middle fingers. Whenever there is a contact between a fingertip and a virtual object, the skin-stretch module provides cutaneous feedback by rotating a contact element toward the wrist. The skin-stretch emulates the strain of the skin occurring when a finger is pushed away by touching a real object.

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Acknowledgment

This material is based upon work supported by the Global Frontier R&D program on “Human-centered Interaction for Coexistence” of the National Research Foundation of Korea funded by the Korean Ministry of Science and ICT (2013M3A6A3078404) and the Kist Institutional Program (2E28250).

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  1. Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

    Hyunwoong Choi, Bukun Son & Sangyoon Kim

  2. Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul, Korea

    Yonghwan Oh & Jaeyoung Park

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  1. Department of Informatics, The University of Electro-Communications, Chofu, Tokyo, Japan

    Hiroyuki Kajimoto

  2. School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea (Republic of)

    Dongjun Lee

  3. Korea University of Technology and Education, Cheonan-si, Ch´ungch´ong-namdo, Korea (Republic of)

    Sang-Youn Kim

  4. Tohoku University, Miyagi, Miyagi, Japan

    Masashi Konyo

  5. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Korea (Republic of)

    Ki-Uk Kyung

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Choi, H., Son, B., Kim, S., Oh, Y., Park, J. (2019). A Wearable Hand Haptic Interface to Provide Skin Stretch Feedback to the Dorsum of a Hand. In: Kajimoto, H., Lee, D., Kim, SY., Konyo, M., Kyung, KU. (eds) Haptic Interaction. AsiaHaptics 2018. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 535. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3194-7_46

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