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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"Sense of touch"”.
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A sense of touch for a mechanical hand
Thesis: M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 1963
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Sense of touch: an in depth study of the Villa Mairea
… by architectural experts. An in depth study of this building was used to develop tools that may be helpful in analyzing the sense of touch in other architectural work either built or un-built.
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Exploring Spatial Operations of Distractor Suppression in the Sense of Touch
… suppressing neural information outside the focus of attention (a mechanism known as distractor suppression). Although we have a decent understanding of how the brain enhances information within the focus of attention, less is known about the mechanisms that mediate suppression of distractors, …
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Tactility and modernity: the sense of touch in D. H. Lawrence, Alfred Stieglitz, Walter Benjamin, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty
The aim of this dissertation is to examine the unique importance of tactile perception in Western Modernism, focusing on three individuals and an artistic group, namely, D. H. Lawrence, Walter Benjamin, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and an artistic circle centering around Alfred Stieglitz. In the …
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Touching Time: Forms of Romantic Temporality
<p>The sense of touch has largely been neglected in the study of Romantic literature. While recent histories of the senses hold that sight and touch became disarticulated toward the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth, these studies tend to emphasize the elevation of …
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Development of sensory feedback systems: devices and strategies
… for limb replacement. To ensure the success of such prostheses, it is crucial to establish a stable and reliable connection between the artificial limb, residual muscles, and the nervous system. Communication with the nervous system can be established using invasive or non-invasive …
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Haptic controls in cars for safer driving
With the spread of latest state of the art technologies geared towards utilization of the human senses, haptic technologies have been introduced as a way of utilising the sense of touch to either solve real world problems or to enhance present experiences. This thesis focuses on using haptic …
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When machines touch back : simulating-- and stimulating-- the most intimate of senses
… a computer peripheral for simulating the sense of touch, that became the de facto device for haptics research. The thesis recounts the story of Massie, his invention, and present and potential applications as varied as telesurgery and teledildonics. Along the way the thesis explores the …
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Mechanisms for Inactivation in Piezo Ion Channels
<p>An organism’s ability to sense mechanical forces is critical for the detection of environmental stimuli as well as the regulation of internal processes necessary for survival. In vertebrates, the molecular mechanisms of somatosensation has remained an important and unresolved neurobiological …
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Tactile perception of cognitive robots
… neglected by robotic researchers. At the time of writing, tactile sensing devices that can just approach the performance of the human sense of touch seem out of reach. Despite this fact the use and exploitation of available sensors should not be disregarded. Tactile sensing is indispensable for …
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conceptual packaging
Packaging and package design is commonly thought of as a tool to attract the consumer to material goods. Packages, however, have other attributes. In Japan, packaging design is very charming because of the delicate selection of materials, images, and interaction. Different kinds of material provide …
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Bi-modal hemispherical sensors for three axis force and contact angle measurement
… terrain or deftly handling small objects. Much of this success is related to our ability to accurately perceive the world around us through a sense of touch. In order to better perform dynamic, physical interactions, such as locomotion or manipulation, robots need to be able to accurately …
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Increased age leads to decreased dexterity: is it really that simple?
… every day tasks. In the General Introduction of this PhD thesis (Chapter 1), literature that supports evidence for this relationship was reviewed. In addition, literature that has attempted to understand co-variance factors that may influence the age and dexterity relationship were also …
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Ubiquitous interactive displays: magical experiences beyond the screen
… flat screens. This thesis presents a series of proof-of-concept systems exploring three interactive displays: the first part of this thesis explores interactive projective displays, where the use of projected light transforms and enhances physical objects in our environment. The second part …
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Sensitive skins and somatic processing for affective and sociable robots based upon a somatic alphabet approach
The sense of touch is one of the most important senses of the human body. This thesis describes the biologically inspired design of "sensitive skins" for two different robotic platforms: Leonardo, a high degree-of-freedom, sociable robot and the Huggable, a portable therapeutic robotic companion …
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Wearable lip-based electrotactile display : feasibility study, modeling, and system design
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] For assisting visually impaired to effectively perceive critical spatial information through the sense of touch, we proposed a wearable lip-based electrotactile display. The miniaturized display is most effective with …
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ComTouch : a vibrotactile mobile communication device
This thesis presents ComTouch, a new device for enhancing interpersonal communication over distance through use of touch. The ComTouch approach investigates how the sense of touch can be remotely represented by means of a vibrotactile, or touch-and-vibration, interface. Touch has potential to …
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Design and Manufacturing Methods for a Curved All-Around Camera-Based Tactile Sensor
In recent years, use of camera-based tactile sensors in robotics has grown in popularity as the dexterous and in-hand manipulation tasks we aim to accomplish become more difficult and as the environments a robotic hand must interact with become more complex. Past works have shown that by giving …
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Vibrotactile pattern recognition on the torso : effects of concurrent activities
… created to aid vision or hearing through the sense of touch. These displays communicate with the user to provide information. The focus of this thesis was to determine how concurrent activity affects vibrotactile signal recognition. An overall accuracy recognition rate of 90% or greater was …
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Vibrotactile sensory substitution for post-stroke rehabilitation
The aftermath of a stroke leaves people with side effects such as speech and hearing problems, and loss of sensation in one side of their body. Sensory feedback in the hand is used to assess if the individual is using appropriate grip force to hold and use objects; lack of sensory feedback can lead …
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