This tutorial focuses on the sense of touch within the context of a fully active human
observer. It is intended for graduate students and researchers outside the discipline who …

This paper reviews tactual perception of material properties such as roughness, compliance,
coldness and friction. Psychophysical functions relating physical properties to perception are …

Robotic hands with tactile perception can perform more advanced and safer operations,
such as material recognition. Nanowires with high sensitivity, fast response, and low power …

Human Hand Function is a multidisciplinary book that reviews the sensory and motor
aspects of normal hand function from both neurophysiological and behavioral perspectives …

In the past decade, remarkable progress has been made in the domain of augmented
reality/virtual reality (AR/VR). The need for realistic and immersive augmentation has …

Thermal displays have been developed to present thermal cues to the hand to facilitate
object recognition in virtual environments or in teleoperated robotic systems. This review …

The word haptics, believed to be derived from the Greek word haptesthai, means related to
the sense of touch. In the psychology and neuroscience literature, haptics is the study of …

Temperature is a fundamental sensory modality separate from touch, with dedicated
receptor channels and primary afferent neurons for cool and warm,–. Unlike for other …

Introduction Studies of categorical decision-making attempt to understand behavior by
probing how different features of complex and changing environments guide the selection of …

We present ThermAirGlove (TAGlove), a pneumatic glove which provides thermal feedback
for users, to support the haptic experience of grabbing objects of different temperatures and …