Evaluation of Wearable Haptic Systems for the Fingers in Augmented Reality Applications

• Published in: IEEE transactions on haptics Vol. 10; no. 4; pp. 511 - 522
• Main Authors: Maisto, Maurizio, Pacchierotti, Claudio, Chinello, Francesco, Salvietti, Gionata, De Luca, Alessandro, Prattichizzo, Domenico
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States IEEE 01.10.2017; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Actuators; Adult; Augmented reality; Calcium carbonate; Cardboard; Chalk; Computer Science; cutaneous feedback; DC motors; Equipment Design; Experiments; Feedback; Female; Fingers; fingertip haptics; Haptic interfaces; Human-computer interaction; Humans; Male; Motor Activity; Object motion; Robotics; Servomotors; Smartphones; tactile feedback; Touch; User-Computer Interface; Virtual Reality; Wearable computing; Wearable Electronic Devices; Wearable haptics; Wearable technology; Weight; Writing; Young Adult; wearable haptics; AR; augmented reality; cutaneous feedback; tactile feedback; fingertip haptics

Although Augmented Reality (AR) has been around for almost five decades, only recently we have witnessed AR systems and applications entering in our everyday life. Representative examples of this technological revolution are the smartphone games "Pokémon GO" and "Ingress" or the...