HCC: Medium: Collaborative Research: Hand-Mounted Tactile Displays for Haptically Identifying Shape and Dexterous Manipulation

HCC：媒介：协作研究：用于触觉识别形状和灵巧操作的手持式触觉显示器

• 批准号: 0904456
• 负责人: William Provancher
• 金额: $ 86万
• 依托单位: University of Utah
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-07-15 至 2013-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0904456&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: HCC; Medium; Collaborative; Research; Hand

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Force-feedback, or haptic, applications in medicine, engineering, and design are increasing in popularity and importance based on the advantages of haptic devices in providing intuitive and realistic interactions with virtual environments. However, current haptic devices lack integrated tactile feedback, which communicates contact and sliding between fingertips and an object. Although a variety of tactile displays have been developed, most are large bench-top devices and are impractical to place at a user?s fingertips while exploring a virtual object. Simpler, more compact devices will solve this problem and provide a means to create a more compelling virtual touch experience. The overarching objective of this research is to significantly improve the quality of touch feedback obtained with haptic interfaces by improving both the mechanical interface to virtual worlds and the supporting computational methods that generate touch sensations. These advances will be informed by and validated through a progression of human subject experiments that will culminate in two application-based evaluations in the areas of medical bone palpation and virtual assembly. These case studies will quantify the improved dexterous manipulation and exploration capabilities resulting from this research.

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。基于触觉设备在提供与虚拟环境的直观和逼真交互方面的优势，力反馈或触觉在医学、工程和设计中的应用越来越受欢迎和重要。然而，当前的触觉设备缺乏集成的触觉反馈，其传达指尖和对象之间的接触和滑动。虽然各种触觉显示器已被开发，大多数是大型台式设备和不切实际的地方在用户？的指尖，同时探索虚拟对象。更简单、更紧凑的设备将解决这个问题，并提供一种创造更引人注目的虚拟触摸体验的方法。这项研究的总体目标是显着提高触觉界面获得的触摸反馈的质量，通过改善机械接口的虚拟世界和支持的计算方法，产生触摸感觉。这些进展将通过人类受试者实验的进展得到通知和验证，最终将在医学骨骼触诊和虚拟装配领域进行两项基于应用的评估。 这些案例研究将量化改进灵巧的操作和探索能力，从这项研究。