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《美国复苏与再投资法》（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现实的相互作用方面，药物，工程和设计中的力量反馈或触觉的应用在受欢迎和重要性上提高。但是，当前的触觉设备缺乏集成的触觉反馈，该反馈会在指尖和物体之间传达接触和滑动。尽管已经开发出各种触觉显示器，但大多数是大型台式设备，并且在探索虚拟物体时不切实际地放在用户的指尖上。更简单，更紧凑的设备将解决此问题，并提供一种创造更引人注目的虚拟触摸体验的手段。这项研究的总体目的是通过改善虚拟世界的机械接口和产生触摸感的支持计算方法来显着提高用触觉接口获得的接触反馈质量。这些进步将通过人类主题实验的进展来告知和验证，这些实验将在医学骨触诊和虚拟组装领域的两个基于申请的评估中达到顶峰。 这些案例研究将量化这项研究导致的灵巧操作和勘探能力的改善。