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