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Wearable haptic technologies, known as wearable haptics, instantiate physical contacts with users, either to confirm actions or to communicate a surrounding information – over a worn-type interface. Two factors require to be addressed for their design: the body locus – a function of comfort and sensitivity, and the types of stimuli they provide.Wearable haptics have gained great popularity in the last decade, thanks to their effectiveness, ease of use, and variety of application scenarios.This paper provides a non-exhaustive review of…

Understanding and Mitigating Encountered-Type of Haptic Devices Failure Modes in VR Encountered-type of Haptic devices (ETHD) are robotic interfaces physically overlaying virtual counterparts prior to a user interaction in Virtual Reality. They theoretically reliably provide haptics in Virtual environments, yet they raise several intrinsic design challenges to properly display rich haptic feedback and interactions in VR applications. In this paper, we use a Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) approach to identify, organise and analyse the failure modes and their…

Survey of Virtual Reality Interactions via Haptic Solutions In the past few years, the terms “Virtual Reality” and “Haptics” have been amongst the most quoted keywords in HCI conferences. Why enabling haptics in VR? Virtual Reality experiences are evaluated in terms of presence. Presence is the feeling of being in another place than the one we are actually in. It heavily relies on the users’ senses. Currently, immersion and realism levels in terms of vision and auditory cues are really…