An Overview of Wearable Haptic Technologies and Their Performance in Virtual Object Exploration
We often interact with our environment through manual handling of objects and exploration of their properties. Object properties (OP), such as texture, stiffness, size, shape, temperature, weight, and orientation provide necessary information to successfully perform interactions. The human haptic pe...
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| author | Myla van Wegen Just L. Herder Rolf Adelsberger Manuela Pastore-Wapp Erwin E. H. van Wegen Stephan Bohlhalter Tobias Nef Paul Krack Tim Vanbellingen |
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| description | We often interact with our environment through manual handling of objects and exploration of their properties. Object properties (OP), such as texture, stiffness, size, shape, temperature, weight, and orientation provide necessary information to successfully perform interactions. The human haptic perception system plays a key role in this. As virtual reality (VR) has been a growing field of interest with many applications, adding haptic feedback to virtual experiences is another step towards more realistic virtual interactions. However, integrating haptics in a realistic manner, requires complex technological solutions and actual user-testing in virtual environments (VEs) for verification. This review provides a comprehensive overview of recent wearable haptic devices (HDs) categorized by the OP exploration for which they have been verified in a VE. We found 13 studies which specifically addressed user-testing of wearable HDs in healthy subjects. We map and discuss the different technological solutions for different OP exploration which are useful for the design of future haptic object interactions in VR, and provide future recommendations. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-4d67fd351f914a64990e48744a15730f2023-11-16T18:02:54ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202023-02-01233156310.3390/s23031563An Overview of Wearable Haptic Technologies and Their Performance in Virtual Object ExplorationMyla van Wegen0Just L. Herder1Rolf Adelsberger2Manuela Pastore-Wapp3Erwin E. H. van Wegen4Stephan Bohlhalter5Tobias Nef6Paul Krack7Tim Vanbellingen8Department of Precision and Microsystems Engineering, Delft University of Technology, 2628 CD Delft, The NetherlandsDepartment of Precision and Microsystems Engineering, Delft University of Technology, 2628 CD Delft, The NetherlandsSensoryx AG, 8005 Zurich, SwitzerlandGerontechnology and Rehabilitation Group, ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research, University of Bern, 3008 Bern, SwitzerlandDepartment of Rehabilitation Medicine, Amsterdam Movement Sciences, Amsterdam UMC, VUmc, 1117 HV Amsterdam, The NetherlandsNeurocenter, Luzerner Kantonsspital, 6000 Luzern, SwitzerlandGerontechnology and Rehabilitation Group, ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research, University of Bern, 3008 Bern, SwitzerlandDepartment of Neurology, Center for Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, 3008 Bern, SwitzerlandGerontechnology and Rehabilitation Group, ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research, University of Bern, 3008 Bern, SwitzerlandWe often interact with our environment through manual handling of objects and exploration of their properties. Object properties (OP), such as texture, stiffness, size, shape, temperature, weight, and orientation provide necessary information to successfully perform interactions. The human haptic perception system plays a key role in this. As virtual reality (VR) has been a growing field of interest with many applications, adding haptic feedback to virtual experiences is another step towards more realistic virtual interactions. However, integrating haptics in a realistic manner, requires complex technological solutions and actual user-testing in virtual environments (VEs) for verification. This review provides a comprehensive overview of recent wearable haptic devices (HDs) categorized by the OP exploration for which they have been verified in a VE. We found 13 studies which specifically addressed user-testing of wearable HDs in healthy subjects. We map and discuss the different technological solutions for different OP exploration which are useful for the design of future haptic object interactions in VR, and provide future recommendations.https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/23/3/1563object explorationobject interactionvirtual realityhapticswearableVR system |
| spellingShingle | Myla van Wegen Just L. Herder Rolf Adelsberger Manuela Pastore-Wapp Erwin E. H. van Wegen Stephan Bohlhalter Tobias Nef Paul Krack Tim Vanbellingen An Overview of Wearable Haptic Technologies and Their Performance in Virtual Object Exploration Sensors object exploration object interaction virtual reality haptics wearable VR system |
| title | An Overview of Wearable Haptic Technologies and Their Performance in Virtual Object Exploration |
| title_full | An Overview of Wearable Haptic Technologies and Their Performance in Virtual Object Exploration |
| title_fullStr | An Overview of Wearable Haptic Technologies and Their Performance in Virtual Object Exploration |
| title_full_unstemmed | An Overview of Wearable Haptic Technologies and Their Performance in Virtual Object Exploration |
| title_short | An Overview of Wearable Haptic Technologies and Their Performance in Virtual Object Exploration |
| title_sort | overview of wearable haptic technologies and their performance in virtual object exploration |
| topic | object exploration object interaction virtual reality haptics wearable VR system |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/23/3/1563 |
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