“TECHTILE toolkit – A prototyping tool for designing haptic media -” by Minamizawa, Kakehi, Nakatani, Mihara and Tachi
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- TECHTILE toolkit - A prototyping tool for designing haptic media -
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“TECHTILE” is a fundamental concept by combining “TECHnology” with “tacTILE” perception/expression. Our aim is to disseminate the haptic technologies as the third media in the field of art, design, and education and extends the conventional “multi-media” which consists of visual information and auditory information.
There has been various haptic devices proposed so far, but most of them are still in emerging stage. To attract the interest of potential users of haptics such as designers, educators, and students, it is necessary to provide easy-to-make and easy-to-use haptic device. We then developed an introductory haptic device called “TECHTILE toolkit”.
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MINAMIZAWA, K., KAKEHI, Y., NAKATANI, M., MIHARA, S., AND TACHI, S. 2012. TECHTILE toolkit – A prototyping tool for design and education of haptic media. In Proceedings of ACM VRIC 2012, Laval, France.
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This project is supported by JST-CREST Haptic Media project and Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media. And this e-tech demonstration is supported by Prix Emerging Technologies award in Laval Virtual 2012.
