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In this paper, we present a roughness modulation technique that employs electrotactile augmentation to alter material texture perception, which is conducted through mechanically unconstrained touch. A novel electrotactile augmented reality system that superimposes modulating nerve activity onto afferent nerves at the middle phalanx of a finger is described. We conducted a user study in which participants were requested to rate the roughness of real materials that were explored using the system. The results indicated that participants could perceive the modulated fine- and macro-roughness via the electrotactile augmentation.
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This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Numbers 22135003 and 25870394 in Japan. The study here presented has been approved by Ethical Committee of Graduate School of Engineering Science (25-3), Osaka University in Japan.
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Yoshimoto, S., Kuroda, Y., Uranishi, Y., Imura, M., Oshiro, O. (2014). Roughness Modulation of Real Materials Using Electrotactile Augmentation. In: Auvray, M., Duriez, C. (eds) Haptics: Neuroscience, Devices, Modeling, and Applications. EuroHaptics 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8618. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44193-0_2
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