User Exploratory Behaviour and Perception in Unconstrained Tactile Exploration Using Electrovibration

Electrovibration offers potential to enrich virtual touch experiences with authentic tactile sensations on touchscreens. In controlled environments, responses to tactile stimuli may be anticipated, yet this predictability becomes uncertain in unconstrained settings due to dynamic factors like varied applied force, finger scanning speed, and...

Challenges in Adoption of Haptic Technology the Case of SenseGlove

This thesis report explores the integration of haptic technology in enterprise processes through the case of SenseGlove, a scale-up company based in YesDelft that produces Virtual Reality Gloves. The study aims to identify the potential barriers and requirements for the enterprise’s clients to adopt haptic technology and integrate it into their...

Haptic aesthetics: Optimising the feel of a set of headphones

The Tensile headphone is a redesign of the HD6xx line for Sennheiser, to showcase new ideas of haptic aesthetic headphones and explore innovative directions. The project as a whole followed the Research through Design approach. That is, the design detailing of the Tensile headphone was used as a medium to gain knowledge about how aesthetic...

Redesigning a Haptic Glove for New Features and Improved Assembly

This report describes the development of a redesigned haptic glove for SenseGlove, a Delft-based startup specializing in haptic technologies for use in Virtual Reality. Their Nova product line offers force feedback, haptics, and finger tracking to increase immersion in VR and provide intuitive interaction with virtual objects for training...

Constructing Fidgeting: Integrating Extended Cognition, Mind Wandering, and Mindless Interaction in Pursuit of a Productive Mood State

Object-mediated fidgeting (pen clicking, ring spinning, paper folding, etc.) is a pervasive and often unaware human behavior. Despite its prevalence, fidgeting has no consensus cause or effect in existing scientific literature. This graduation project seeks to operationalize fidgeting through and with design to enable affect self-regulation, or...

A novel virtual reality glove system with integrated vibro-tactile feedback for Parkinson’s disease: a usability study

Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is one of the most common neuro-degenerative diseases worldwide, affecting patients’ ability to perform Activities of Daily Living (ADL), such as cooking and dressing, and consequently decreasing Quality of Life (QoL). Most ADL require dexterous skills which are often impaired in PD. Pharmacological therapy is often not...

FeelPen: A Handheld Multimodal Haptic Interface for Displaying Augmented Texture Feels on Touchscreens

The ever-emerging mobile market induced a blooming interest in stylus-based interactions. However, most state-of-the-art styli are passive or display only unimodal tactile feedback. Multimodal haptic devices that simultaneously stimulate our cutaneous and kinesthetic receptors to provide immersive and realistic sensations in a virtual...

Haptic Lullaby: Research & design of a vibrating smart mattress that helps young children sleep

Young children often have problems sleeping. Some are afraid of the dark. Or wake up multiple times during the night. Another just does not want to go to bed or lays awake for a long time. Whatever the reason, a lack of sleep makes the children tired during the day. For parents, their child's well-being is important, so they want them to sleep...

Determining design guidelines for a haptic admittance display in aircraft control

The haptic feedback signal in haptic interfaces is usually in the form of a force on the control device. In contrast, the “active side stick”, investigated in the 80s and 90s, uses an admittance display, whereby the position of the device is linked to the feedback signal, and force applied on the device is used as the control signal. These...

HapSync - Exploring Emotional Interactions Through Haptic Vibrations

This project was meant to explore social connection between people through haptic interfaces based on tactile vibrations, but it ended up being a reflection on how technology has been influenced by our understanding of human cognition and how new trends in cognitive science can help to create interfaces that make our digital interactions...

The Market of Breath: A design strategy to productize breathwork meditation through tactile vibrations

Keeping a healthy work/life balance can be a daunting task in today’s overstimulated society. For many of us, a regular day can feel like running on a treadmill. This results in fast, restricted and shallow breathing throughout the day. Whereas, the right breathing rhythm can have a profound impact on our (mental) well being and overall...

Designing a haptic interface from a vision-centred approach

Over the last few years, technological innovations led to the development of new haptic interfaces. SenseGlove, a Dutch technology start-up, developed an exoskeleton-based haptic interface capable of motion tracking and providing haptic feedback. The academic industry has been identified as a potential target group for this product. However,...

Oculus inTouch: Designing a Controller for Compelling VR Experiences Through Touch

Arthur C. Clarke said: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic,” and cutting edge Virtual Reality (VR) certainly is quite the illusion. VR opens to us a near infinite set of worlds and possibilities. Comprehensive, Immersive, Virtual Environments (IVEs) will change the way we shop, explore, love and live. They’ll...

UAV Haptic Interface for Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance: Using the Velocity Obstacle method for haptic cues

Teleoperation is by nature a deprivation of the senses, which can pose a handicap when operating in an unknown and even dynamic en- vironment. Noticing moving obstacles in such a situation can prove to be quite difficult and the UAV runs the risk of colliding with them. Previous work designed a shared control haptic interface based on the...

Enhancing the music festival experience for hearing-impaired people: Designing an inclusive visual/ tactile dance game

This thesis describes the design process to enhance the music festival experience for hearing-impaired people. This assignment was set up to make the MOJO backstage exhibition at Museum Prinsenhof Delft inclusive for hearing-impaired people. First, context mapping research with hearing-impaired and hearing festival visitors shows that...

Tuning of a haptic collision avoidance system for UAV teleoperation: Using neuromuscular admittance measurements

This research investigates a neuromuscular analysis based tuning algorithm for haptic cues that has been hypothesized to simultaneously improve safety and workload when compared to heuristic tuning, applied to a haptic collision avoidance system for unmanned aircraft teleoperation. This novel tuning method considers the combined stiffness of the...