A survey of mid-air ultrasound haptics and its applications

I Rakkolainen, E Freeman, A Sand… - IEEE Transactions …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ultrasound haptics is a contactless haptic technology that enables novel mid-air interactions
with rich multisensory feedback. This article surveys recent advances in ultrasound haptic …

Integrating tactile feedback technologies into home-based telerehabilitation: opportunities and challenges in light of COVID-19 pandemic

S Handelzalts, G Ballardini, C Avraham… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for advancing the development and
implementation of novel means for home-based telerehabilitation in order to enable remote …

Mouth haptics in VR using a headset ultrasound phased array

V Shen, C Shultz, C Harrison - Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Today's consumer virtual reality (VR) systems offer limited haptic feedback via vibration
motors in handheld controllers. Rendering haptics to other parts of the body is an open …

Feellustrator: A design tool for ultrasound mid-air haptics

H Seifi, S Chew, AJ Nascè, WE Lowther… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Ultrasound mid-air haptic technology provides a large space of design possibilities, as one
can modulate the ultrasound intensity in a continuous 3D space at a high speed over time …

HapticSnakes: multi-haptic feedback wearable robots for immersive virtual reality

M Al-Sada, K Jiang, S Ranade, M Kalkattawi… - virtual reality, 2020 - Springer
Haptic feedback plays a large role in enhancing immersion and presence in VR. However,
previous research and commercial products have limitations in terms of variety and locations …

Mid-air thermo-tactile feedback using ultrasound haptic display

Y Singhal, H Wang, H Gil, JR Kim - … of the 27th ACM Symposium on …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
This paper presents a mid-air thermo-tactile feedback system using an ultrasound haptic
display. We design a proof-of-concept thermo-tactile feedback system with an open-top …

EarVR: Using ear haptics in virtual reality for deaf and Hard-of-Hearing people

M Mirzaei, P Kan, H Kaufmann - IEEE transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Virtual Reality (VR) has a great potential to improve skills of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing
(DHH) people. Most VR applications and devices are designed for persons without hearing …

Tracking in haptic systems

M Iodice, BJO Long, R Jibry - US Patent 11,360,546, 2022 - Google Patents
Described herein are techniques for tracking objects (including human body parts such as a
hand), namely: 1) two-state transducer interpolation in acoustic phased-arrays; 2) …

Dolphin: A framework for the design and perceptual evaluation of ultrasound mid-air haptic stimuli

L Mulot, G Gicquel, Q Zanini, W Frier… - ACM Symposium on …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Ultrasound mid-air haptic interfaces can display highly reconfigurable vibrotactile shapes in
mid-air for human-computer interaction (HCI) applications. The choice of stimulus shape …

Face/on: Multi-modal haptic feedback for head-mounted displays in virtual reality

D Wolf, M Rietzler, L Hnatek… - IEEE transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
While the real world provides humans with a huge variety of sensory stimuli, virtual worlds
most of all communicate their properties by visual and auditory feedback due to the design …