In the last decade, we have witnessed a drastic change in the form factor of audio and vision
technologies, from heavy and grounded machines to lightweight devices that naturally fit our …

The sense of proprioception allows us to keep track of our limb posture and movements and
the sense of touch provides us with information about objects with which we come into …

Restoration of touch after hand amputation is a desirable feature of ideal prostheses. Here,
we show that texture discrimination can be artificially provided in human subjects by …

The ability to extend sensory information processing beyond the nervous system has been
observed throughout the animal kingdom; for example, when rodents palpate objects using …

The term 'synergy'–from the Greek synergia–means 'working together'. The concept of
multiple elements working together towards a common goal has been extensively used in …

Purpose: The aim of this review is to analyze haptic sensory substitution technologies for
deaf, blind and deaf–blind individuals. Method: The literature search has been performed in …

Our tactile perception of external objects depends on skin-object interactions. The
mechanics of contact dictates the existence of fundamental spatiotemporal input features …

The temporal evolution of surface strain, resulting from a combination of normal and
tangential loading forces on the fingerpad, was calculated from high-resolution images. A …

Besides providing information on elementary properties of objects, like texture, roughness,
and softness, the sense of touch is also important in building a representation of object …

When we touch an object or explore a texture, frictional strains are induced by the tactile
interactions with the surface of the object. Little is known about how these interactions are …