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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