TY - GEN
T1 - Influence of object material properties and geometry on skin temperature responses during contact
AU - Ho, Hsin Ni
N1 - Funding Information:
The author would like to thank Dr. Junji Watanabe and Dr. Warrick Roseboom for their valuable comments on the manuscript. This research was supported by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (15H05915) from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology.
Publisher Copyright:
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - When the hand makes contact with an object, the changes in skin temperature provide information about not only the object’s material composition but also its geometry. Consider, for example, the temperature difference felt when touching an aluminum block and a piece of aluminum foil. To study the thermal cues associated with material properties and object thickness, we measured the changes in skin temperature elicited when touching objects with varying material properties and geometries, and compared them to the theoretical predictions obtained from two thermal models, of which one assumes the object having an infinite thickness and the other takes into consideration the actual object thickness. The comparison results indicate that the former model is effective in capturing the rapid temperature changes at the moment of contact and the latter model is better at predicting the total change in skin temperature at the end of contact. These findings provide a knowledge basis for the development of thermal displays for material simulation and automatic object identification systems that identify an object’s material composition and thickness based on thermal feedback.
AB - When the hand makes contact with an object, the changes in skin temperature provide information about not only the object’s material composition but also its geometry. Consider, for example, the temperature difference felt when touching an aluminum block and a piece of aluminum foil. To study the thermal cues associated with material properties and object thickness, we measured the changes in skin temperature elicited when touching objects with varying material properties and geometries, and compared them to the theoretical predictions obtained from two thermal models, of which one assumes the object having an infinite thickness and the other takes into consideration the actual object thickness. The comparison results indicate that the former model is effective in capturing the rapid temperature changes at the moment of contact and the latter model is better at predicting the total change in skin temperature at the end of contact. These findings provide a knowledge basis for the development of thermal displays for material simulation and automatic object identification systems that identify an object’s material composition and thickness based on thermal feedback.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-42321-0_26
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-42321-0_26
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84978864838
SN - 9783319423203
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 281
EP - 290
BT - Haptics
A2 - Kajimoto, Hiroyuki
A2 - Bello, Fernando
A2 - Visell, Yon
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 10th International Conference on Haptics: Perception, Devices, Control, and Applications, EuroHaptics 2016
Y2 - 4 July 2016 through 7 July 2016
ER -