Haptics, Lynette Jones
Haptics, Lynette Jones
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Haptics

Author: Lynette Jones

Narrator: Teri Schnaubelt

Unabridged: 3 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 03/26/2019


Synopsis

An accessible, nontechnical overview of active touch sensing, from sensory receptors in the skin to tactile surfaces on flat screen displays.

Haptics, or haptic sensing, refers to the ability to identify and perceive objects through touch. This is active touch, involving exploration of an object with the hand rather than the passive sensing of a vibration or force on the skin. The development of new technologies, including prosthetic hands and tactile surfaces for flat screen displays, depends on our knowledge of haptics. In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Lynette Jones offers an accessible overview of haptics, or active touch sensing, and its applications.

Jones explains that haptics involves integrating information from touch and kinesthesia—that is, information both from sensors in the skin and from sensors in muscles, tendons, and joints. The challenge for technology is to reproduce in a virtual world some of the sensations associated with physical interactions with the environment.

Reviews

Goodreads review by David on January 21, 2019

Got this as a present from a friend — it promised “an accessible, nontechnical overview of active touch sensing”. And it delivered! I went from a mental model of haptics that was “your phone buzzing when you tap a button” to a much richer understanding of how we take in physical, tactile information......more

Goodreads review by Muromets on November 15, 2018

Personally, never having dedicated any significant thought to my sense of touch before reading Haptics, I now find it impossible not to notice minute details about how my hands interact with the world around me, and the variety of feedback mechanisms in play while I do it. I picked up the book hopin......more

Goodreads review by Anthony on March 10, 2021

But what does it feel like Haptic perception, kinaesthetic and tactile, is fundamental to human experience in the real world, and increasingly in virtual worlds. This short but highly expert and very readable book takes the reader through the basics. Science, engineering, and applications. And is cer......more