Electronics and mechatronics waste is an exponentially increasing environmental issue,
especially for wearable devices, due to their widespread diffusion into society and short life …

Recently, a phonemic-based tactile speech communication system was developed with the
goal to transmit speech through the skin for people with hearing impairments and those …

Three-dimensional scatterplots suffer from well-known perception and usability problems. In
particular, overplotting and occlusion, mainly due to density and noise, prevent users from …

Wearable haptic systems offer portable, private tactile communication to a human user. To
date, advances in wearable haptic devices have typically focused on the optimization of …

What are the effects of frequency variation of vibrotactile stimuli on localization acuity? The
precise localization of vibrotactile stimuli is crucial for applications that are aimed at …

The characterization of vibrotactile perception is crucial to accurately configure haptic
devices and create appropriate stimuli for improving user performance in human-machine …

Vibrotactile arrays are appealing as wearable haptic devices, since designers can vary
parameters including cue location and duration to create distinct haptic icons to represent a …

Stroke patients suffer from impairments of both motor and somatosensory functions. The
functional recovery of upper extremities is one of the primary goals of rehabilitation …

The design of multimodal output should be based on modality capacity and
appropriateness. Previous relevant research had various limitations such as using over …

Guidance to maintain an optimal aerodynamic position is currently unavailable during
cycling. This study used real-time vibrotactile feedback to guide cyclists to a reference …