Project Number
- 323
Title
- SmartFinger
Description
- Finger-tip tactile feedback device for augmenting a user's physical perceptions of a smooth surface.
Contact
- Hideyuki Ando
Affiliation
- Japan Science and Technology Corporation
Address
- 7-3-1 Hongo
- Bunkyo-ku
- Tokyo 113-8656 Japan
- Bunkyo-ku
- hide@star.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp
WWW
Year
- 2002
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 2002 Conference Abstracts and Applications
Project Details
- "'Smart Finger' is a novel type of tactile display for Augmented Reality (AR) that is wearable, like a press-on fingernail. This device allows the user to feel various textures while tracing his or her fingers along smooth objects. This wearable AR interface can supplement bump mapping information to real objects."
- The design of Smart Finger carefully keeps the ball of the finger bare and directly in contact with a surface by clipping the tactile display to the nail of the finger. The Smart Finger uses (1) photodetectors for realtime measurements beneath the finger, (2) a sensor to detect finger pressure by observing fingernail color changes, and (3) a "voice coil" to generate vibration on the nail itself.
Sight
- graphics workstation (for projected data)
Sound
Touch
- Smart Finger tactile display unit
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 1 - Innovation, Custom, Research
Intent
- 2 - Technique (paradigm, human)
Primary
- 205 - tangible / gesture interface
Secondary
- 102 - display (immer,aug,ster)
Remarks
- This research is part of The Parasitic Humanoid (PH) project to develop wearable robots that model nonverbal human behavior.
Last updated: 5 Jul 2002
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