Emulating Social Haptic Communication with Vibration patterns

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Myrthe A. Plaisier ◽  
Astrid M. L. Kappers
Keyword(s):  
Haptic Communication

scholarly journals Haptic Communication to Support Biopsy Procedures Learning in Virtual Environments

2012 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 470-489 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amine Chellali ◽  
Cedric Dumas ◽  
Isabelle Milleville-Pennel
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Method ◽  
Skills Training ◽  
Needle Insertion ◽  
Learning System ◽  
Fine Motor ◽  
Skills Acquisition ◽  
Surgical Skill ◽  
Biopsy Procedure ◽  
Haptic Communication ◽  
Procedure Learning

In interventional radiology, physicians require high haptic sensitivity and fine motor skills development because of the limited real-time visual feedback of the surgical site. The transfer of this type of surgical skill to novices is a challenging issue. This paper presents a study on the design of a biopsy procedure learning system. Our methodology, based on a task-centered design approach, aims to bring out new design rules for virtual learning environments. A new collaborative haptic training paradigm is introduced to support human-haptic interaction in a virtual environment. The interaction paradigm supports haptic communication between two distant users to teach a surgical skill. In order to evaluate this paradigm, a user experiment was conducted. Sixty volunteer medical students participated in the study to assess the influence of the teaching method on their performance in a biopsy procedure task. The results show that to transfer the skills, the combination of haptic communication with verbal and visual communications improves the novices’ performance compared to conventional teaching methods. Furthermore, the results show that, depending on the teaching method, participants developed different needle insertion profiles. We conclude that our interaction paradigm facilitates expert-novice haptic communication and improves skills transfer; and new skills acquisition depends on the availability of different communication channels between experts and novices. Our findings indicate that the traditional fellowship methods in surgery should evolve to an off-patient collaborative environment that will continue to support visual and verbal communication, but also haptic communication, in order to achieve a better and more complete skills training.

scholarly journals Collaborative Virtual Surgery: Techniques, Applications and Challenges

2010 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing Qin ◽  
Kup-Sze Choi ◽  
Wai-Man Pang ◽  
Zhang Yi ◽  
Pheng-Ann Heng
Keyword(s):  
Medical Education ◽  
Network Architecture ◽  
Schedule Algorithm ◽  
User Interaction ◽  
Virtual Surgery ◽  
Transmission Protocol ◽  
Distributed Environments ◽  
Considerable Effort ◽  
Surgical Simulators ◽  
Haptic Communication

While considerable effort has been dedicated to improve medical education with virtual reality based surgical simulators, relatively little attention is given to the simulation of the collaborative procedures in distributed environments. In this paper, we first present a literature review of techniques involved in the development of collaborative simulators, including network architecture, transmission protocol, collaboration mechanism, schedule algorithm, collaborative user-interaction feature and haptic communication. We introduce the details of each technique and discuss the advantages and drawbacks. Then, we review some of the existing applications to illustrate how to apply these techniques to implement an efficient and robust collaborative simulator. Finally, we discuss the challenges that need to be addressed in the future.

scholarly journals Touching at a Distance: Digital Intimacies, Haptic Platforms, and the Ethics of Consent

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Madelaine Ley ◽  
Nathan Rambukkana
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Cloud Storage ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Ethics Of Technology ◽  
Use Of Data ◽  
Communication Devices ◽  
Haptic Communication ◽  
Skin To Skin ◽  
Sense Of Touch

AbstractThe last decade has seen rise in technologies that allow humans to send and receive intimate touch across long distances. Drawing together platform studies, digital intimacy studies, phenomenology of touch, and ethics of technology, we argue that these new haptic communication devices require specific ethical consideration of consent. The paper describes several technologies, including Kiiroo teledildonics, the Kissenger, the Apple Watch, and Hey Bracelet, highlighting how the sense of touch is used in marketing to evoke a feeling of connection within the digital sphere. We then discuss the ambiguity of skin-to-skin touch and how it is further complicated in digital touch by remediation through platforms, companies, developers, manufacturers, cloud storage sites, the collection and use of data, research, satellites, and the internet. Lastly, we raise concerns about how consent of data collection and physical consent between users will be determined, draw on examples in virtual reality and sex-robotics, and ultimately arguing for further interdisciplinary research into this area.

Haptic communication of dimensions of emotions using air jet based tactile stimulation

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamed Yassine Tsalamlal ◽  
Nizar Ouarti ◽  
Jean-Claude Martin ◽  
Mehdi Ammi
Keyword(s):  
Tactile Stimulation ◽  
Air Jet ◽  
Haptic Communication

scholarly journals Bidirectional Haptic Communication: Application to the Teaching and Improvement of Handwriting Capabilities

Machines ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolò Pedemonte ◽  
Thierry Laliberté ◽  
Clément Gosselin
Keyword(s):  
Haptic Communication

scholarly journals Design of a Massage-Inspired Haptic Device for Interpersonal Connection in Long-Distance Communication

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lalita Haritaipan ◽  
Masahiro Hayashi ◽  
Céline Mougenot
Keyword(s):  
Romantic Relationships ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Average Force ◽  
Considerable Research ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Haptic Communication ◽  
Distance Communication ◽  
Post Hoc ◽  
Online Conversation

The use of tactile senses in mediated communication has generated considerable research interest in past decades. Since massage is a common practice in Asian cultures, we propose to introduce massage-based interactions in mediated communication between people in a close relationship. We designed a device for distant interactive massage to be used during online conversation and we assessed its effect on interpersonal connection with eight pairs of Chinese participants in romantic relationships. All pairs were asked to engage in a conversation, either through a video call or through a massage-assisted video call. The findings showed that the use of the massage device significantly increased the perceived emotional and physical connection between the users. The results also showed a significant increase in the engagement in the massage activity, e.g., total massage time and average force per finger, from positive conversation to negative conversation, demonstrating an evidence of the interplay between audio-visual and haptic communication. Post hoc interviews showed the potential of the massage device for long-distance communication in romantic relationships as well as in parents-children relationships.

Communication Through Haptics During Human Collaborative Manipulation

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (03) ◽  
pp. 1850003
Author(s):  
Maria Javaid
Keyword(s):  
Activities Of Daily Living ◽  
Daily Living ◽  
User Study ◽  
Decision Rules ◽  
Elderly Person ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Communication Interface ◽  
Assistive Robot ◽  
Haptic Communication ◽  
User Friendly

This paper describes research towards understanding haptic communication during planar object manipulation. In particular, a classification algorithm that classifies four stages of manipulation of a planar object is described. This research was performed as a part of a broader research project which has the goal of developing a user-friendly communication interface for an elderly-assistive robot. The manipulation of planar object was studied in detail as it happened very frequently during user study involving a caregiver helping an elderly person with the activities of daily living. For observing human haptic interaction, a sensory glove was developed. Further data collection was conducted in the laboratory setting and data was analyzed using various machine learning techniques. Based on this analysis, decision rules were derived that give insight into human-to-human collaborative manipulation of planar objects and successfully identified several classes of manipulative actions. The developed decision tree-based algorithm was then tested on the data of a user study that involved a caregiver assisting an elderly person in the activities of daily living. The developed algorithm also successfully classifies manipulation actions in real-time. This information is particularly interesting as it does not depend on any particular sensor and thus can be used by other researchers to further study haptic communication.

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