The French physiologist Augustin Charpentier (1852–1916) published the first accounts of
the size-weight illusion—the observation that if two objects differ in size but have equal …

This study measured the minimum amount of force necessary to identify its direction. The
force was produced by a robot and transmitted to a small spherical handle held between the …

Sensory adaptation is a phenomenon well known for most of the senses and may be a way
to optimize the encoding of sensory signals for the finite processing resources of the neural …

Softness perception offers a good opportunity to study how position and force information
are integrated during exploratory movements. This chapter presents a model of how this …

Several experiments show that the mass of an object can be judged by the ratio of the
applied force to the resulting accelerative force. Errors can occur through failure to monitor …

Haptic telepresence systems enable a human operator to perform tasks at otherwise hardly
accessible locations. In this work, system theoretic models of human perception and …

Softness is an important source of information when interacting with real, remote, or virtual
environments (VE) via a haptic human-machine-interface. Humans have no dedicated …

When two partners perform a joint physical task, each of them experiences a force that sums
together a component generated by the partner and another generated from the …