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Haptic perception plays a major role when vision and audition are partially or fully impaired. Therefore, this paper tries to give a brief overview on humans’ sensitivity distribution in perceptual space. During our experiments, a wearable sleeve with 7 vibro-actuators was used to stimulate subjects arm to convey haptic feedback. The basic research questions in this study are: (1) whether humans’ perception linearly correlated with the actuation frequency, haptic feedback in our scenario (2) humans’ ability to generalise templates via the wearable haptic sleeve. Those findings would be useful to increase humans’ perception when humans have to work with fully or partially impaired perception in their day-to-day life.
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The authors would like to thank UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) grant no. EP/I028765/1 and grant no. EP/NO3211X/1, the Guy’s and St Thomas’ Charity grant on developing clinician-scientific interfaces in robotic assisted surgery: translating technical innovation into improved clinical care (grant no. R090705), and Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF).
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Goodman, D., Nagar, A., Secco, E.L., Ranasinghe, A. (2018). Humans Sensitivity Distribution in Perceptual Space by a Wearable Haptic Sleeve. In: Perego, P., Rahmani, A., TaheriNejad, N. (eds) Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare. MobiHealth 2017. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 247. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98551-0_26
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