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Book Synopsis Haptic Devices for Studies on Human Grasp and Rehabilitation by : Alessandro Altobelli
Download or read book Haptic Devices for Studies on Human Grasp and Rehabilitation written by Alessandro Altobelli and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-23 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a new set of devices for accurate investigation of human finger stiffness and force distribution in grasping tasks. The ambitious goal of this research is twofold, the first is to advance the state of the art on human strategies in manipulation tasks and provide tools to assess rehabilitation procedure and the second is to investigate human strategies for impedance control that can be used for human robot interaction and control of myoelectric prosthesis. Part one describes two types of systems that are able to achieve a complete set of measurements on force distribution and contact point locations. The effectiveness of these devices in grasp analysis is also experimentally demonstrated and applications to neuroscientific studies are discussed. In part two, the devices are exploited in two different studies to investigate stiffness regulation principles in humans. The first study provides evidence on the existence of coordinated stiffening patterns in the fingers of human hands and establishes initial steps towards a real-time and effective modelling of finger stiffness in tripod grasp. The second study presents experimental findings on how humans modulate their hand stiffness whilst grasping objects of varying levels of compliance. The overall results give solid evidence on the validity and utility of the proposed devices to investigate human grasp properties. The underlying motor control principles that are exploited by humans in the achievement of a reliable and robust grasp can potentially be integrated into the control framework of robotic or prosthetic hands to achieve a similar interaction performance.
Book Synopsis Haptic Interfaces for Accessibility, Health, and Enhanced Quality of Life by : Troy McDaniel
Download or read book Haptic Interfaces for Accessibility, Health, and Enhanced Quality of Life written by Troy McDaniel and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-12-18 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first resource to provide in-depth coverage on topical areas of assistive, rehabilitative, and health-related applications for haptic (touch-based) technologies. Application topics are grouped into thematic areas spanning haptic devices for sensory impairments, health and well-being, and physical impairments which are illustrated in this book. A diverse group of experts in the field were invited to contribute different chapters to provide complementary and multidisciplinary perspectives. Unlike other books on haptics, which focus on human haptic perception, specific modalities of haptics (e.g., realistic haptic rendering), or broadly cover the subfields of haptics, this book takes an application-oriented approach to present a tour of how the field of haptics has been advanced with respect to important, impactful thematic focuses. Under Theme 1 “Sensory Impairments”, haptics technologies to support individuals with sensory impairments is presented which includes: Spatial awareness in sensory impairments through touch; Haptically-assisted interfaces for persons with visual impairments; and Enabling learning experiences for visually impaired children by interaction design. Under Theme 2 “Haptics for Health and Well-Being”, haptics technologies aimed at supporting exercise and healthy aging will be covered including: Haptics in rehabilitation, exergames and health; Therapeutic haptics for mental health and well-being; and Applications of haptics in medicine. Under Theme 3 “Haptics for Physical Impairments”, haptics technologies for enhancing the quality of life for individuals with weakened/impaired limbs or neurological diseases impacting movement is targeted including: Assistive soft exoskeletons with pneumatic artificial muscles; Haptics for accessibility in rehabilitative hardware; and intelligent robotics and immersive displays for enhancing haptic interaction in physical rehabilitation environments. Engineers, scientists, and researchers working in the areas of haptics, multimedia, virtual/augmented/mixed-reality, human-computer interaction, assistive technologies, rehabilitative technologies, healthcare technologies, and/or actuator design will want to purchase this book. Advanced level students and hobbyists interested in haptics will also be interested in this book.
Book Synopsis Multi-finger Haptic Interaction by : Ignacio Galiana
Download or read book Multi-finger Haptic Interaction written by Ignacio Galiana and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multi-finger Haptic Interaction presents a panorama of technologies and methods for multi-finger haptic interaction, together with an analysis of the benefits and implications of adding multiple-fingers to haptic applications. Research topics covered include: design and control of advanced haptic devices; multi-contact point simulation algorithms; interaction techniques and implications in human perception when interacting with multiple fingers. These multi-disciplinary results are integrated into applications such as medical simulators for training manual skills, simulators for virtual prototyping and precise manipulations in remote environments. Multi-finger Haptic Interaction presents the current and potential applications that can be developed with these systems, and details the systems’ complexity. The research is focused on enhancing haptic interaction by providing multiple contact points to the user. This state-of-the-art volume is oriented towards researchers who are involved in haptic device design, rendering methods and perception studies, as well as readers from different disciplines who are interested in applying multi-finger haptic technologies and methods to their field of interest.
Book Synopsis Haptics: Neuroscience, Devices, Modeling, and Applications by : Malika Auvray
Download or read book Haptics: Neuroscience, Devices, Modeling, and Applications written by Malika Auvray and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-10-09 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two-volume set LNCS 8618 and 8619 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference EuroHaptics 2014, held in Versailles, France, in June 2014. The 118 papers (36 oral presentations and 82 poster presentations) presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 183 submissions. Furthermore, 27 demos were exhibited, each of them resulting in a short paper included in the volumes. These proceedings reflect the multidisciplinary nature of EuroHaptics and cover topics such as human-computer interaction, human-robot interactions, neuroscience, perception and psychophysics, biomechanics and motor control, modelling and simulation; and a broad range of applications in medicine, rehabilitation, art, and design.
Book Synopsis Haptics: Neuroscience, Devices, Modeling, and Applications by : Malika Auvray
Download or read book Haptics: Neuroscience, Devices, Modeling, and Applications written by Malika Auvray and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two-volume set LNCS 8618 and 8619 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference EuroHaptics 2014, held in Versailles, France, in June 2014. The 118 papers (36 oral presentations and 82 poster presentations) presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 183 submissions. Furthermore, 27 demos were exhibited, each of them resulting in a short paper included in the volumes. These proceedings reflect the multidisciplinary nature of EuroHaptics and cover topics such as human-computer interaction, human-robot interactions, neuroscience, perception and psychophysics, biomechanics and motor control, modelling and simulation; and a broad range of applications in medicine, rehabilitation, art, and design.
Book Synopsis Engineering Haptic Devices by : Christian Hatzfeld
Download or read book Engineering Haptic Devices written by Christian Hatzfeld and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this greatly reworked second edition of Engineering Haptic Devices the psychophysic content has been thoroughly revised and updated. Chapters on haptic interaction, system structures and design methodology were rewritten from scratch to include further basic principles and recent findings. New chapters on the evaluation of haptic systems and the design of three exemplary haptic systems from science and industry have been added. This book was written for students and engineers that are faced with the development of a task-specific haptic system. It is a reference book for the basics of haptic interaction and existing haptic systems and methods as well as an excellent source of information for technical questions arising in the design process of systems and components. Divided into two parts, part 1 contains typical application areas of haptic systems and a thorough analysis of haptics as an interaction modality. The role of the user in the design of haptic systems is discussed and relevant design and development stages are outlined. Part II presents all relevant problems in the design of haptic systems including general system and control structures, kinematic structures, actuator principles and sensors for force and kinematic measures. Further chapters examine interfaces and software development for virtual reality simulations.
Book Synopsis Proceedings of the Future Technologies Conference (FTC) 2019 by : Kohei Arai
Download or read book Proceedings of the Future Technologies Conference (FTC) 2019 written by Kohei Arai and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-10-09 with total page 983 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents state-of-the-art intelligent methods and techniques for solving real-world problemsand offers a vision of future research. Featuring 143 papers from the 4th Future Technologies Conference, held in San Francisco, USA, in 2019, it covers a wide range of important topics, including, but not limited to, computing, electronics, artificial intelligence, robotics, security and communications and their applications to the real world. As such, it is an interesting, exciting and inspiring read.
Book Synopsis Advances in Haptics by : Mehrdad Hosseini Zadeh
Download or read book Advances in Haptics written by Mehrdad Hosseini Zadeh and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haptic interfaces are divided into two main categories: force feedback and tactile. Force feedback interfaces are used to explore and modify remote/virtual objects in three physical dimensions in applications including computer-aided design, computer-assisted surgery, and computer-aided assembly. Tactile interfaces deal with surface properties such as roughness, smoothness, and temperature. Haptic research is intrinsically multi-disciplinary, incorporating computer science/engineering, control, robotics, psychophysics, and human motor control. By extending the scope of research in haptics, advances can be achieved in existing applications such as computer-aided design (CAD), tele-surgery, rehabilitation, scientific visualization, robot-assisted surgery, authentication, and graphical user interfaces (GUI), to name a few. Advances in Haptics presents a number of recent contributions to the field of haptics. Authors from around the world present the results of their research on various issues in the field of haptics.
Book Synopsis Haptic Interaction by : Shoichi Hasegawa
Download or read book Haptic Interaction written by Shoichi Hasegawa and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-07-06 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book comprises the proceedings of the second International Conference, AsiaHaptics 2016, held in Kashiwanoha, Japan. The book treats the state of the art of the diverse haptics (touch)-related research, including scientific research of haptics perception and illusion, development of haptics devices, and applications to a wide variety of fields such as education, medicine, telecommunication, navigation, and entertainment. This work helps not only active haptic researchers, but also general readers to understand what is going on in this interdisciplinary area of science and technology.
Book Synopsis Handheld Haptic Feedback for Grasping in Virtual Reality by : Inrak Choi
Download or read book Handheld Haptic Feedback for Grasping in Virtual Reality written by Inrak Choi and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more realistic and useful interaction in Virtual Reality (VR), haptic feedback with natural gestures is necessary because it plays a large role in conjunction with visual feedback when interacting with objects. While recent advances in technology have made commercial Head-Mounted Displays (HMDs) available to consumers at a low cost, the user interfaces are still limited to conventional controllers and existing styles of gestural input. It is desirable to allow users to interact as realistically in VR as they interact with objects in the real world. To develop a haptic user interface for VR with HMDs, wearability and mobility are extremely important. Traditional kinesthetic haptic interfaces are fixed externally in a room and thus have a limited workspace. Handheld or wearable haptic interfaces can address this fundamental challenge of limited workspace. However, achieving rich haptic sensations with ungrounded haptic devices is especially challenging due to the following two reasons. First, the selection of an actuator is limited to lightweight and low power actuators due to the constraints of the mobile form factor. Second, it is hard to create kinesthetic force feedback external from a human body because the devices are grounded to the user's body, not to the environment. This thesis proposes two strategies for addressing these challenges. First, the thesis introduces novel force feedback mechanisms using clutches and brakes to make ungrounded haptic devices lightweight, compact, safe, power-efficient, and low cost. Second, it shows it is desirable to simulate kinesthetic haptic sensations through vibrotactile feedback because vibration can be easily implemented with small and light voice coil actuators. In this thesis, I propose five force feedback methods based on these two strategies. The first half of this thesis introduces novel force feedback mechanisms making handheld or wearable haptic devices compact, safe, power-efficient, and low cost. First, the thesis introduces a unidirectional brake mechanism to generate a rigid stiffness with a lightweight form factor. The self energizing effect of the unidirectional brake enables a high dynamic range of force with low power consumption and does not require a force sensor to release. After evaluating the brake's performance, the brake mechanism is integrated into a wearable haptic interface, named Wolverine. Second, after addressing the strengths and weaknesses of the unidirectional brake, the thesis introduces a clutch-equipped hybrid actuation system to utilize compact geared motors. Geared motors create high force in a compact form factor but also involve large inertia, damping, and friction. The proposed system is composed of a geared motor and two unidirectional clutches in series. By selectively engaging the end-effector to the geared motor or the handle grip, the system improves the performance of force feedback in terms of rendering free space and solid objects. Third, a soft and high force density linear brake utilizing layer jamming is introduced. It functions as a compact brake module by dissipating mechanical energy through coulomb friction. The braking force is controllable by changing the vacuum pressure inside a flexible and extensible enclosure. The thesis introduces a dynamic model to calculate the tension force of the brake and experimentally verifies the model. The second half of the thesis explores effects of vibrotactile feedback on human perception to improve perceived kinesthetic haptic feedback of handheld or wearable haptic devices. First, the thesis investigates the effect of transient vibration for augmenting perceived softness in the context of VR interaction with haptic proxy objects and brake-based haptic devices. Two studies show that active transient vibration added to rigid kinesthetic force feedback changes users' softness perception. By changing the frequency of the transient vibration to be lower or higher than the natural frequency occurring from the actual impact in the mechanism, the transient vibration can simulate softer or harder objects. Second, the thesis investigates the effect of asymmetric vibration to create an illusory kinesthetic force for simulating the sensation of weight. Two user studies show that users feel illusory weight sensations with a maximum force of 0.2N. The amount of the weight sensation is controllable by changing the amplitude of the asymmetric vibration. Two voice coil actuators creating asymmetric vibration are integrated into a wearable haptic device for grasping, named Grabity.
Book Synopsis Pervasive Haptics by : Hiroyuki Kajimoto
Download or read book Pervasive Haptics written by Hiroyuki Kajimoto and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-27 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the state of the art in diverse areas of haptics (touch)-related research, including the psychophysics and neurophysiology of haptics, development of haptics displays and sensors, and applications to a wide variety of fields such as industry, education, therapy, medicine, and welfare for the visually impaired. It also discusses the potential of future haptics interaction, such as haptics for emotional control and remote haptics communication. The book offers a valuable resource not only for haptics and human interface researchers, but also for developers and designers at manufacturing corporations and in the entertainment industries.
Book Synopsis Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population. Healthy and Active Aging by : Qin Gao
Download or read book Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population. Healthy and Active Aging written by Qin Gao and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-07-10 with total page 735 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This three volume set of LNCS 12207, 12208 and 12209 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population, ITAP 2020, held as part of the 22nd International Conference, HCI International 2020, which took place in Copenhagen, Denmark, in July 2020. The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The total of 1439 papers and 238 posters have been accepted for publication in the HCII 2020 proceedings from a total of 6326 submissions. ITAP 2020 includes a total of 104 regular papers which are organized in topical sections named: Involving Older Adults in HCI Methodology , User Experience and Aging, Aging and Mobile and Wearable Devices, Health and Rehabilitation Technologies, Well-being, Persuasion, Health Education and Cognitive Support, Aging in Place, Cultural and Entertainment Experiences for Older Adults, Aging and Social Media, Technology Acceptance and Societal Impact.
Book Synopsis Service Robotics and Mechatronics by : Keiichi Shirase
Download or read book Service Robotics and Mechatronics written by Keiichi Shirase and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-10-24 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world suffering from an ageing population and declining birth rate, service robotics and mechatronics have an increasingly vital role to play in maintaining a safe and sustainable environment for everyone. Mechatronics can be used in the reconstruction or restoration of various environments which we rely upon to survive; for example the reconstruction of a city after an earthquake, or the restoration of polluted waters This collection of papers was originally presented at the 7th International Conference on Machine Automation, 2008, in Awaji, Japan, and covers a variety of new trends in service robotics and mechatronics. Service Robotics and Mechatronics showcases the latest research in the area to provide researchers and scientists with an up-to-date source of knowledge and basis for further study, as well as offering graduate students valuable reference material.
Book Synopsis Oxford Textbook of Neurorehabilitation by : Volker Dietz
Download or read book Oxford Textbook of Neurorehabilitation written by Volker Dietz and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-27 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updated to reflect recent developments in the field, Oxford Textbook of Neurorehabilitation provides an understanding of the theoretical underpinnings of the subject along with a clear perspective on making treatment decisions on an individual basis. This is an indispensable book for those working with patients requiring neurorehabilitation.
Book Synopsis Challenges for Assistive Technology by : Gorka Eizmendi
Download or read book Challenges for Assistive Technology written by Gorka Eizmendi and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 972 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 21st century Assistive Technology (AT) should be defined as a scientific and technologic approach to the development of products and services oriented to support the elderly and people with disabilities in their daily activities, maximizing their personal autonomy, independence, health and quality of life.
Book Synopsis Grasping in Robotics by : Giuseppe Carbone
Download or read book Grasping in Robotics written by Giuseppe Carbone and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grasping in Robotics contains original contributions in the field of grasping in robotics with a broad multidisciplinary approach. This gives the possibility of addressing all the major issues related to robotized grasping, including milestones in grasping through the centuries, mechanical design issues, control issues, modelling achievements and issues, formulations and software for simulation purposes, sensors and vision integration, applications in industrial field and non-conventional applications (including service robotics and agriculture). The contributors to this book are experts in their own diverse and wide ranging fields. This multidisciplinary approach can help make Grasping in Robotics of interest to a very wide audience. In particular, it can be a useful reference book for researchers, students and users in the wide field of grasping in robotics from many different disciplines including mechanical design, hardware design, control design, user interfaces, modelling, simulation, sensors and humanoid robotics. It could even be adopted as a reference textbook in specific PhD courses.
Book Synopsis Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population. Technology Design and Acceptance by : Qin Gao
Download or read book Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population. Technology Design and Acceptance written by Qin Gao and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-07-03 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population, ITAP 2021, held as part of the 23rd International Conference, HCI International 2021, held as a virtual event, in July 2021. The total of 1276 papers and 241 posters included in the 39 HCII 2021 proceedings volumes was carefully reviewed and selected from 5222 submissions. ITAP 2021 includes a total of 67 papers; they focus on topics related to designing for and with older users, technology acceptance and user experience of older users, use of social media and games by the aging population, as well as applications supporting health, wellbeing, communication, social participation and everyday activities.
