Our study investigated the effect of vibration elements on the recognition of texture in a planar type actuator. A planar type actuator is highly advantageous in naturally conveying the texture of a graphic object on a ...

Previous studies have attempted to manipulate the elastic properties of products from elements such as different materials and internal structures. In this paper, we investigate whether we can manipulate the softness ...

In recent decades, the increasing number of elderly people with dementia has become a major social problem. Under such circumstances, virtual agent systems aimed at helping with mental health care for the elderly have ...

We propose a novel tap method for a capacitive touch screen, which is called inverse tap (iTap). Because this is operated as follows: a finger is removed from a screen first, and then put on it, different from normal tap. ...

This paper proposes a method to generate a turning walk sensation to the user by an arm swing display. We assumed a hypothesis that the turning walk sensation is generated by providing different motion profiles of passive ...

We present an immersive virtual reality (VR) application that is designed to train users in recycling behaviors. In this demonstration, users play a recycling game in which they are awarded for proper recycling procedures. ...

An olfactory display is a device that presents an odor to a person. In this research, odor components, which can reproduce odor by mixing them at specified ratio, were used. By using odor components, the authors developed ...