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TeslaTouch: electrovibration for touch surfaces

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The proposed technology is based on the electrovibration principle, does not use any moving parts and provides a wide range of tactile feedback sensations to fingers moving across a touch surface, which enables the design of a wide variety of interfaces that allow the user to feel virtual elements through touch.
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We present a new technology for enhancing touch interfaces with tactile feedback. The proposed technology is based on the electrovibration principle, does not use any moving parts and provides a wide range of tactile feedback sensations to fingers moving across a touch surface. When combined with an interactive display and touch input, it enables the design of a wide variety of interfaces that allow the user to feel virtual elements through touch. We present the principles of operation and an implementation of the technology. We also report the results of three controlled psychophysical experiments and a subjective user evaluation that describe and characterize users' perception of this technology. We conclude with an exploration of the design space of tactile touch screens using two comparable setups, one based on electrovibration and another on mechanical vibrotactile actuation.

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Electrotactile and vibrotactile displays for sensory substitution systems

TL;DR: The authors review the methods used to present visual, auditory, and modified tactile information to the skin and discuss present and potential future applications of sensory substitution, including tactile vision substitution (TVS), tactile auditory substitution, and remote tactile sensing or feedback (teletouch).
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TL;DR: The general development of adaptive procedures is described, and typically, a threshold value is measured using these methods, and, in some cases, other characteristics of the psychometric function underlying perceptual performance, such as slope, may be developed.
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HoloWall: designing a finger, hand, body, and object sensitive wall

TL;DR: This TechNote reports on the initial results of realizing a computer augmented wall using an infrared camera located behind the wall called the HoloWall, which allows a user to interact with this computerized wall using ngers, hands, their body, or even a physical object such as a document folder.
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Issues and techniques in touch-sensitive tablet input

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