HAPTIC

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HAPTIC :having to do with sense of touch.

HAPTIC :also known as force-feedback
technology
Why use touch?
natural
Fast
Good for building up mental picture of 3D
objects.
Exploration.

GROUPS OF RECEPTORS
Sense of touch has 2 groups of
receptors

Kinesthetic
Tactile

Location of Receptors

Kinesthetic
tendons, muscles
and articular
joints

Tactile- dermis &

epidermis

Architecture for Haptic

feedback

Haptic Devices

Medical training
applications

Prostate Cancer

Improves
Brachytheraphy
by increasing
seed distribution
accuracy.

Stroke Patients

Patients interact with

virtual worlds by feel.

Minimally Invasive surgery

Measures forces
and torques.
Determines Dof
forces.

Immersion:

Mobiles more
useful.
Games more
electrifying.
Automobile
controls-more
intuitive.
Medical training
simulators-more
effective.

Torch for BLIND

Virtual Brailee Display:

(vdb)

CONCLUSION:

Future for online computing & Ecommerce.

Part of a Persons normal computer
interaction.