kate hartman asks: can you translate touch like people have previously translated voices?
haptics is anything experienced via touch. usually bi-directional, and relates to proprioception.
"skin as a medium of communication"
some haptic illusions:
sensory funneling illusion – when brief tactile stimuli are presented at several closely spaced locations on the skin they are often perceived as occurring at a single focal point at the center of the stimuli
phi phenomena – when a number of discrete taps are delivered to the skin and are experienced as a single stimulus moving across the skin rather than as isolated taps
sensory saltation (first known as “cutaneous rabbit”) – when a series of short pulses delivered at three different locations on the skin are perceived as stimulus that is moving progressively across the skin
from kate hartman’s slides.
thought about making a body calculator that you could use from your pockets.
two types of vibrational motors:
- erm: eccentric rotating mass. a load on the end of the shaft of a motor that makes it unbalanced, and, therefore, wobble.
- lra: linear-something-actuator. like a speaker: something moves up & down.