“An effective combination of haptic and tactile sensations in human-scale virtual environments” by Hashimoto, Iio and Sato

This research provides the sense of touch to the whole hand of users who can move around freely in immersive virtual environments, by a combination of haptics and tactile. The sense of touch caused by the collision between virtual objects and a user’s hand, as well as the visualization of that objects, is quite important for reality of immersive virtual environments. In this research, we focus on haptic and tactile sensation as the principal components of the sense of touch. These sensations were well-studied separately by numerous researchers, and various display devices for those sensations were proposed. However, for the immersive virtual environments, few studies presented these two sensations at a time to a relatively wide region like a whole hand, because the devices for the human-scale environments like a CAVE tend to become larger and prevent user’s arbitrary movements.

1. Jeong, S., Hashimoto, N., and Sato, M. 2005. Immersive Multi-Projector Display on Hybrid Screens with Human-Scale Haptic Interface. In IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems, vol. E88-D, 888–893.