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Engineering Haptic Devices

Part of the book series: Springer Series on Touch and Haptic Systems ((SSTHS))

Abstract

This chapter focuses on the biological and behavioral basics of the haptic modality. On one side, several concepts for describing interaction are presented in Sect. 2.2, and on the other side, the physiological and psychophysical bases of haptic perception are discussed in Sect. 2.1. The goal of this chapter is to provide a common basis to describe interactions and to convey a basic understanding of perception, and the description via psychophysical parameters. Both aspects are relevant to the formal description of the purpose of a haptic system and the derivation of requirements, which are further explained in Chap. 5. Several conclusions arising from the description of perception and interaction are given in Sect. 2.4.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    An elaborate derivation can be found in [56, Chap. 1].

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    Unfortunately, the number of test subjects involved in the studies is not reported.

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