Texture Display by using Electrical Stimulus


"Developing a tactile display which can present various textures is expected. In order to use the device with an input interface such as computer mouse, tactile device of small and simple structure is desired. Although it has been known that transcutaneous electrical stimulus causes sensation, the stimulus rendering strategy for texture presentation has not been revealed yet. We developed a small and simple mouse-type tactile interface for presenting texture sensation by using electrical stimulus. The interface enables users to feel several degree of roughness of virtual texture by presenting electrical stimulus patterns which mimic nerve activities during exploring the concave-convex surface."


Publications

  • S. Yoshimoto, Y. Kuroda, M. Imura, O. Oshiro, Electrotactile Pulse Rate Modulation to Present Self-Similarity of Object Surface. Transactions of the Virtual Reality Society of Japan, Vol.16, No.3, pp.307-315, 2011 (in Japanese).
  • S. Yoshimoto, Y. Kuroda, Y. Kagiyama, T. Kuroda, O. Oshiro, Tactile Mapping Approach using Electrical Stimulus Pattern. In Proc. The 18th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, pp.460-465, Toyama, Japan, 2009.


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