Tactile Perception of Textiles in a Virtual-Reality System

• Main Author: Allerkamp, Dennis (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.
• Series: Cognitive Systems Monographs, 10
• Subjects: Engineering.; Textile industry.; Artificial intelligence.; Computational intelligence.; Cognitive psychology.; Engineering, general.; Textile Engineering.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Computational Intelligence.; Cognitive Psychology.

Virtual Reality (VR) has a lot of applications ranging from entertainment to mechanical design and medical training. VR systems are often used in training situations where training in a real environment would be inappropriate and possibly even dangerous. This work was part of the EU funded HAPTEX pr...

Table of Contents:

• Human Perception
• Devices for Tactile Simulation
• Generation of Virtual Surfaces
• Tactile Rendering
• Summary and Outlook.