Contents

  Preface

 

I. Epistemological and historical aspects

  Haptic perception: an historic approach

  German pioneers of research into human haptic perception

  British pioneers of research into human haptic perception

  Early psychological studies on touch in France

  Haptics in the United States before 1940

 

II. Neurophysiological and physiological aspects

  Anatomy of receptors

  Physiological mechanisms of the receptor system

  Neural basis of haptic perception

  The neural bases of haptic working memory

  Neuronal plasticity of the haptic system

 

III. Psychological aspects

  Haptic perception in the human foetus

  Haptic behavior in social interaction

  Learning effects in haptic perception

  Implicit and explicit memory effects in haptic perception

  Attention in sense of touch

  Haptic object identification

  Haptic perceptual illusions

  Haptic perception in interaction with other senses

  Haptically evoked activation of visual cortex

  Haptic perception and synaesthesia

  Haptic perception in sexuality

  Haptic perception in space travel

 

IV. Clinical and neuropsychological aspects

  Phantom sensations

  The neuroscience and phenomenology of sensory loss

  Focal dystonia: diagnostic, therapy, rehabilitation

  Self-injurious behavior

  Language development disturbances

  Haptic perception in Anorexia nervosa

 

V. Haptic interfaces and devices

  History of haptic interfaces

  Principles of haptic perception in virtual environments

  Haptic shape cues, invariants, priors and interface design

  Design guidelines for generating force feedback on fingertips using haptic interfaces

  Haptic rendering and control

  Haptic perception in human robotic systems

 

VI. Applications

  Haptic design of vehicle interiors at AUDI

  Visual-haptic interfaces in car design by BMW

  Haptics in reasearch at Daimler AG

  Haptic design of handles

  Vestibular sensory substitution using tongue electrotactile display

  The blind get a taste of vision

  Tactile ground surface indicators in public places

  HapticWalker – haptic foot device for gait rehabilitation

  Haptic sensing of virtual textiles

  Haptic discrimination of paper

  Haptic banknote design

  Get touched – bodycare as a design of media for self-perception

 

  References

  List of contributors

  Glossary

  Index