Textured surfaces for ultrasound haptic displays

Freeman, Euan and Anderson, Ross and Williamson, Julie and Wilson, Graham and Brewster, Stephen A.; Lank, Edward and Hoggan, Eve and Subramanian, Sriram and Vinciarelli, Alessandro and Brewster, Stephen A., eds. (2017) Textured surfaces for ultrasound haptic displays. In: ICMI 2017 - Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, GBR, pp. 491-492. ISBN 9781450355438 (https://doi.org/10.1145/3136755.3143020)

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Abstract

We demonstrate a technique for rendering textured haptic surfaces in mid-air, using an ultrasound haptic display. Our technique renders tessellated 3D 'haptic' shapes with different waveform properties, creating surfaces with distinct perceptions.