Imagine perceiving realistic haptic touch feedback from a human body in a virtual environment could open the new dimension to the virtual world, and the VR/AR world can be alive.
Towards this goal, we first developed a haptic glove to interact with a virtual human.
To know more about this work, please refer to our related publication,
Aishwari Talhan, Hwangil Kim, Sanjeet Kumar, Ahsan Raza, Seokhee Jeon: Pneumatic Actuated Haptic Glove to Interact with the Virtual Human. AsiaHaptics 2018: 213-215
In the next step, we developed a soft thimble actuator to enable human touch in VR/AR based environment.
Enduring my previous approach, I developed a novel soft thimble end-effector that anticipates the most sensitive and essential human body parts for exploring any object, i.e., fingers and fingertips. I led the development of two diverse applications in the Mixed Reality (MR) environment to recognize the device's capability. This work is under review.
One application is a feel-through haptic device, to overlay virtual textures and crisp clicks on a physical surface. This work is under review.
A second application is developed to evaluate haptic capabilities of device for rendering human skin versus fabric texture.
We have published this work in Displays,
Talhan, A., Kumar, S., Kim, H., Hassan, W., & Jeon, S. (2022). Multi-mode soft haptic thimble for haptic augmented reality based application of texture overlaying. Displays, 74, 102272.
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