HaptGlove-Untethered Pneumatic Glove for Multimode Haptic Feedback in Reality-Virtuality Continuum.

Autor: Qi J; Department of Biomedical Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 117583, Singapore.; Institute for Health Innovation and Technology (iHealthtech), National University of Singapore, Singapore, 117599, Singapore., Gao F; School of Astronautics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150001, China., Sun G; School of Astronautics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150001, China., Yeo JC; Institute for Health Innovation and Technology (iHealthtech), National University of Singapore, Singapore, 117599, Singapore., Lim CT; Department of Biomedical Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 117583, Singapore.; Institute for Health Innovation and Technology (iHealthtech), National University of Singapore, Singapore, 117599, Singapore.; Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 117411, Singapore.; SIA-NUS Digital Aviation Corporate Lab, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 117602, Singapore.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) [Adv Sci (Weinh)] 2023 Sep; Vol. 10 (25), pp. e2301044. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Jun 29.
DOI: 10.1002/advs.202301044
Abstrakt: Novel haptics technologies are urgently needed to bridge the gap between entirely physical world and fully digital environment to render a more realistic and immersive human-computer interaction. Current virtual reality (VR) haptic gloves either deliver limited haptic feedback or are bulky and heavy. The authors develop a haptic glove or HaptGlove, an untethered and lightweight pneumatic glove, that allows users to "physically" interact in a VR environment and enables both kinesthetic and cutaneous sensations naturally and realistically. Integrated with five pairs of haptic feedback modules and fiber sensors, HaptGlove provides variable stiffness force feedback and fingertip force and vibration feedback, allowing users to touch, press, grasp, squeeze, and pull various virtual objects and feel the dynamic haptic changes. Significant improvements in VR realism and immersion are observed in a user study with participants achieving 78.9% accuracy in sorting six virtual balls of different stiffnesses. Importantly, HaptGlove facilitates VR training, education, entertainment, and socialization in a reality-virtuality continuum.
(© 2023 The Authors. Advanced Science published by Wiley-VCH GmbH.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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