The modeling of forces during needle insertion into soft tissue is important for accurate
surgical simulation, preoperative planning, and intelligent robotic assistance for …

Haptic interfaces enable person‐machine communication through touch, and most
commonly, in response to user movements. We comment on a distinct property of haptic …

Modern haptic interfaces are adept at conveying the large-scale shape of virtual objects, but
they often provide unrealistic or no feedback when it comes to the microscopic details of …

The word haptics, believed to be derived from the Greek word haptesthai, means related to
the sense of touch. In the psychology and neuroscience literature, haptics is the study of …

This chapter sets about to provide the background and orientation needed to set a novice
designer on his or her way to bringing haptics successfully into an interactive product. To …

The goal of haptic rendering is to enable a user to touch, feel, and manipulate virtual objects
through a haptic interface. With the introduction of high-fidelity haptic devices (see chap. 5 …

Spinal cord injuries disrupt bidirectional communication between the patient's brain and
body. Here, we demonstrate a new approach for reproducing lower limb somatosensory …

We define haptic icons, or" hapticons", as brief programmed forces applied to a user through
a haptic interface, with the role of communicating a simple idea in manner similar to visual or …

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In recent years, the skill preservation of an expert has been a serious problem in various
fields. If digital skill preservation like a haptic database is attained, it may become an …