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Haptics /

An accessible, nontechnical overview of active touch sensing, from sensory receptors in the skin to tactile surfaces on flat screen displays. Haptics, or haptic sensing, refers to the ability to identify and perceive objects through touch. This is active touch, involving exploration of an object wit...

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Main Author: Jones, Lynette
Corporate Author: Gildan Media
Other Authors: Schnaubelt, Teri (Narrator)
Format: Electronic Audio
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Gildan Audio, Â2019.
Edition:Unabridged.
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Online Access:Texto completo (Requiere registro previo con correo institucional)
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Summary:An accessible, nontechnical overview of active touch sensing, from sensory receptors in the skin to tactile surfaces on flat screen displays. Haptics, or haptic sensing, refers to the ability to identify and perceive objects through touch. This is active touch, involving exploration of an object with the hand rather than the passive sensing of a vibration or force on the skin. The development of new technologies, including prosthetic hands and tactile surfaces for flat screen displays, depends on our knowledge of haptics. In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Lynette Jones offers an accessible overview of haptics, or active touch sensing, and its applications. Jones explains that haptics involves integrating information from touch and kinesthesia-that is, information both from sensors in the skin and from sensors in muscles, tendons, and joints. The challenge for technology is to reproduce in a virtual world some of the sensations associated with physical interactions with the environment.
Item Description:Downloadable audio file.
Physical Description:1 online resource (3 hr., 24 min.)
ISBN:9781469073019
1469073013
9781469073002
1469073005