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Tactile brush: drawing on skin with a tactile grid display

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Tactile Brush is an algorithm that produces smooth, two-dimensional tactile moving strokes with varying frequency, intensity, velocity and direction of motion. The design of the algorithm is derived from the results of psychophysical investigations of two tactile illusions -- apparent tactile mo-tion and phantom sensations. Combined together they allow for the design of high-density two-dimensional tactile displays using sparse vibrotactile arrays. In a series of experiments and evaluations we demonstrate that Tactile Brush is robust and can reliably generate a wide variety of moving tactile sensations for a broad range of applications.

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          CHI '11: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
          May 2011
          3530 pages
          ISBN:9781450302289
          DOI:10.1145/1978942

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