IEEE Transactions on Haptics

The five papers in this special section are extended versions of papers that were presented at the World Haptics conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, in March 2009.

This paper describes a tactile display which provides unrestricted tactile feedback in air without any mechanical contact. It controls ultrasound and produces a stress field in a 3D space. The principle is based on a nonlinear phenomenon of ultrasound: ...

We present a wearable haptic feedback device that imparts rotational skin stretch to the hairy skin, along with the results of psychophysical tests to determine its resolution and accuracy for motion display. Tracking experiments with visual markers ...

A variety of tasks could benefit from the availability of direction cues that do not rely on vision or sound. The application of tangential skin displacement at the fingertip has been found to be a reliable means of communicating direction and has ...

We discuss the design and performance of a new haptic surface capable of controlling shear force on a bare finger. At the heart of the ShiverPaD is the TPaD variable friction device. It modulates the friction of a glass surface by using 39 kHz out-of-...

The distribution of tasks and stimuli across multiple modalities has been proposed as a means to support multitasking in data-rich environments. Recently, the tactile channel and, more specifically, communication via the use of tactile/haptic icons have ...

Real-time simulation of haptic interaction with deformable objects is computationally demanding. In particular in finite-element (FE) based analysis of such interactions, a large system of equations must be solved at an update rate of 100-1,000 Hz for ...