Design and Development of Novel Haptic Skin Strain Device for the Arm

Robert M Pettys Baker, Brad Holschuh

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Abstract

Skin strain is an understudied haptic stimuli that has great potential due to its similarity to touch sensations that are commonly felt in daily life. However, up until now, applications have been focused more on smaller areas of the body, and have focused more on skin strain at an actuator level rather than a garment level. As haptics continues to grow as a field, understanding how stimuli are perceived at a micro and macro scale will be essential to producing innovative haptic products that meet a variety of user needs. This work begins an exploration of artificially produced skin strain on a larger area of the body, covering early development work on a skin strain system for the full arm. The motivation and design details are discussed, and then early work related to actuator optimization and plans for future research.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationUbiComp/ISWC 2022 Adjunct - Proceedings of the 2022 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2022 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages99-101
Number of pages3
ISBN (Electronic)9781450394239
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 11 2022
Event2022 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and the 2022 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers, UbiComp/ISWC 2022 - Cambridge, United Kingdom
Duration: Sep 11 2022Sep 15 2022

Publication series

NameUbiComp/ISWC 2022 Adjunct - Proceedings of the 2022 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2022 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers

Conference

Conference2022 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and the 2022 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers, UbiComp/ISWC 2022
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityCambridge
Period9/11/229/15/22

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This work was funded through a University of Minnesota - Human Factors and Ergonomics program microgrant.

Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Owner/Author.

Keywords

  • Haptics
  • Shape Memory Actuators
  • Skin Strain
  • Wearable Technology

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