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Two-finger Stiffness Discrimination with the Stochastic Resonance Effect

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Komi Chamnongthai,

Fumitoshi MatsunoAuthors Info & Claims

ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, Volume 21, Issue 2

Article No.: 6, Pages 1 - 17

https://doi.org/10.1145/3630254

Published: 10 January 2024 Publication History

Abstract

We investigated the ability of two fingers to discriminate stiffness with stochastic resonance. It is known that the haptic perception at the fingertip improves when vibrotactile noise propagates to the fingertip, which is a phenomenon called the stochastic resonance. The improvement in the haptic sensation of a fingertip depends on the intensity of the noise propagating to the fingertip. An improvement in the haptic sensation of multiple fingertips does not require multiple noise sources, such as vibrators, to be attached to multiple fingertips; i.e., even a single vibrator can propagate noise to multiple fingers. In this study, we focus on stiffness discrimination as a task using multiple fingers, in which the thumb and index finger are used to touch an object and perceive its stiffness. Subsequently, we demonstrate that the stiffness perception is improved by propagating sufficiently intense noise to the thumb and index finger using only a single vibrator. The findings indicate the possibility of improving the haptic sensation at multiple fingertips using one vibrator.

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3613905.3650826

Index Terms

Two-finger Stiffness Discrimination with the Stochastic Resonance Effect
1. Applied computing
  1. Physical sciences and engineering
    1. Engineering
      1. Computer-aided design
2. Human-centered computing
  1. Interaction design
    1. Empirical studies in interaction design

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April 2024

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DOI:10.1145/3613547

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Published: 10 January 2024

Online AM: 27 October 2023

Accepted: 02 October 2023

Revised: 23 September 2023

Received: 18 April 2022

Published in TAP Volume 21, Issue 2

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Suzuki T(2024)Enhancing the Human Tactile Sensitivity through an Individually Optimized Imperceptible Vibration StimulationExtended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3613905.3650826(1-6)Online publication date: 11-May-2024
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