Multisensory haptic interactions: understanding the sense and designing for it

摘要

Our haptic sense comprises both taction or cutaneous information obtained through receptors in the skin, and kinesthetic awareness of body forces and motions. Broadly speaking, haptic interfaces to computing systems are anything a user touches or is touched by, to control, experience, or receive information from something with a computer in it. Keyboard and mouse, a physical button on a kitchen blender, and the glass touchscreen on your smartphone are energetically passive haptic interfaces: no external energy is pumped into the users' body from a powered actuator. Most readers will have encountered energetically active haptic feedback as a vibrotactile (VT) buzz or forces in a gaming joystick, a force feedback device in a research lab, or a physically interactive robot. Much more is possible.