Human Haptic Perception

Grunwald M (Ed.) (2008): Human Haptic Perception - Basics and Applications. Birkhäuser, Berlin, Basel, Boston. 

Contents

Preface

I. Epistemological and historical aspects

• Haptic perception: an historic approach
• German pioneers of research into human haptic perception
• British pioneers of research into human haptic perception
• Early psychological studies on touch in France
• Haptics in the United States before 1940

II. Neurophysiological and physiological aspects

• Anatomy of receptors
• Physiological mechanisms of the receptor system
• Neural basis of haptic perception
• The neural bases of haptic working memory
• Neuronal plasticity of the haptic system

III. Psychological aspects

• Haptic perception in the human foetus
• Haptic behavior in social interaction
• Learning effects in haptic perception
• Implicit and explicit memory effects in haptic perception
• Attention in sense of touch
• Haptic object identification
• Haptic perceptual illusions
• Haptic perception in interaction with other senses
• Haptically evoked activation of visual cortex
• Haptic perception and synaesthesia
• Haptic perception in sexuality
• Haptic perception in space travel

IV. Clinical and neuropsychological aspects

• Phantom sensations
• The neuroscience and phenomenology of sensory loss
• Focal dystonia: diagnostic, therapy, rehabilitation
• Self-injurious behavior
• Language development disturbances
• Haptic perception in Anorexia nervosa

V. Haptic interfaces and devices

• History of haptic interfaces
• Principles of haptic perception in virtual environments
• Haptic shape cues, invariants, priors and interface design
• Design guidelines for generating force feedback on fingertips using haptic interfaces
• Haptic rendering and control
• Haptic perception in human robotic systems

VI. Applications

• Haptic design of vehicle interiors at AUDI
• Visual-haptic interfaces in car design by BMW
• Haptics in reasearch at Daimler AG
• Haptic design of handles
• Vestibular sensory substitution using tongue electrotactile display
• The blind get a taste of vision
• Tactile ground surface indicators in public places
• HapticWalker - haptic foot device for gait rehabilitation
• Haptic sensing of virtual textiles
• Haptic discrimination of paper
• Haptic banknote design
• Get touched - bodycare as a design of media for self-perception

References (chapters, alphabetical)
List of contributors
Glossary
Index