E-Pad: a comfortable electrocutaneous-based tactile feedback display

Jiabin Wang; Lu Zhao; Yue Liu; Yongtian Wang; Yi Cai

doi:10.1117/12.2304290

12 January 2018 E-Pad: a comfortable electrocutaneous-based tactile feedback display

Jiabin Wang, Lu Zhao, Yue Liu, Yongtian Wang, Yi Cai

Proceedings Volume 10620, 2017 International Conference on Optical Instruments and Technology: Optoelectronic Imaging/Spectroscopy and Signal Processing Technology; 106200H (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2304290
Event: International Conference on Optical Instruments and Technology 2017, 2017, Beijing, China

Abstract

The devices with touchscreen are becoming more popular recently; however, most of them suffer from the crucial drawbacks of lacking accurate tactile feedback. A novel electrocutaneous-based tactile device with the name of E-pad is proposed to provide a dynamic and static low-voltage feedback for touchscreen. We optimize the key parameters of the output voltage and design custom-made hardwares to guarantee a comfortable user experience. Users could move their fingers freely across the touchscreen of the proposed device to really feel virtual objects. Two preliminary experiments are conducted to evaluate the interactive performance of the proposed device and the experimental results show that the proposed device can provide a comfortable and distinct tactile feedback.

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Jiabin Wang, Lu Zhao, Yue Liu, Yongtian Wang, and Yi Cai "E-Pad: a comfortable electrocutaneous-based tactile feedback display", Proc. SPIE 10620, 2017 International Conference on Optical Instruments and Technology: Optoelectronic Imaging/Spectroscopy and Signal Processing Technology, 106200H (12 January 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2304290

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