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RETROACTION ELECTROCUTANEE [1 record]

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Record 1 2011-11-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Simulation (Cybernetic Systems)
DEF

A method of tactile communication for displaying machine information to human operators, which is delivered in pulses of low-voltage electricity applied to external electrodes on the skin of the operator.

CONT

The use of electrocutaneous feedback is part of another technical convergence: feedback devices for augmenting the visually impaired, robot gloves with a sense of full manual presence for fighter pilots, scientific visualization tools that enable investigators to probe molecules with their fingers, prototypes for sex-at-a-distance devices, may all benefit from new knowledge and technologies related to the tactile dimension of VR [virtual reality].

OBS

Different voltages and frequencies create different kinds of [buzzing sounds] that operators learn to discriminate.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Simulation (Systèmes cybernétiques)

Spanish

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