Haptics Research in TAUCHI : Aiding Visually Impaired Children and Enabling Haptic Interaction

Touch is one of the more recent senses being harnessed in multimodal interaction with personal computers and mobile devices. Haptics has a great potential for helping people with special needs, and making the use of computing devices more natural and concrete for all people. Still, there are great many things that are not known in sufficient detail to make constructing haptic interfaces a simple matter of programming. In this position paper I discuss the projects and ideas that our multimodal interaction research group has been working on within the past few years. In addition, I provide a glance at the upcoming activities that are under way or planned to be investigated in the near future.

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