Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
45 results found in Haptic Technology.
- Haptic Virtual Reality (Haptic VR, Feelable Virtual Environment)
- Haptic virtual reality refers to virtual environments that incorporate touch-based feedback, allowing users to feel virtual textures, shapes, and objects through force-feedback devices. Unlike visual-…
- Impulse Engine (Impulse Engine 3000)
- The Impulse Engine 3000 was a force-feedback haptic device manufactured by Immersion Corporation in the 1990s, used for research into haptic interfaces and virtual reality. The device featured a probe…
- Kinaesthetic Perception (Kinesthetic Perception, Kinaesthesia, Kinesthesia, Proprioception)
- The sensory awareness of the position, movement, and force of body parts, derived from receptors in muscles, tendons, and joints. In the context of haptic technology and accessibility, kinaesthetic pe…
- Kinesthetic Perception (Kinesthesia, Proprioceptive Perception)
- The sensory ability to perceive the position, movement, and forces acting on one's body and limbs through receptors in muscles, tendons, and joints. Kinesthetic perception encompasses awareness of lim…
- Kinesthetic Perception (Kinesthesia, Kinesthetic Sense, Kinesthetic Feedback)
- The sensory awareness of body position, movement, and force through receptors located in muscles, tendons, and joints. In assistive technology, kinesthetic feedback is a component of haptic interactio…
- Mediated Social Touch (Remote Touch, Tele-touch, Haptic Telepresence)
- The use of haptic technology to simulate or communicate social touch gestures — such as stroking, squeezing, patting, or hugging — between people who are physically separated. Mediated social touch sy…
- Mid-Air Ultrasound Haptics (Ultrasound Haptics, Airborne Ultrasound Tactile Display, AUTD)
- A non-contact haptic technology that uses phased arrays of ultrasonic transducers to focus acoustic radiation pressure onto a user's skin, producing tactile sensations in mid-air without any worn or h…
- Non-Contact Haptics (Contactless Haptics, Device-Free Haptics)
- A class of haptic feedback techniques that render tactile sensations on the user's body without requiring physical contact with a device, surface, or wearable. Common approaches include mid-air ultras…
- Novint Falcon
- A consumer-grade 3D haptic input device originally marketed for gaming that has been widely adopted in accessibility research for providing force feedback to people with visual impairments. The device…
- Pantograph (Haptic Pantograph)
- A haptic input device that allows users to explore a two-dimensional surface by physically moving a stylus or finger pad across an exploration area, while receiving tactile feedback from an attached t…
- Phantom Sensation (Phantom Vibration, Vibrotactile Illusion)
- A phantom sensation is a perceptual illusion in which two vibrotactile actuators stimulating the skin simultaneously create the feeling of a single vibration at a point between them. By varying the am…
- Pseudo-Attraction Force
- A haptic illusion technique that creates the sensation of being pulled or pushed in a specific direction by exploiting the nonlinear relationship between physical and perceived acceleration. The techn…
- Sensory Saltation (Cutaneous Rabbit Effect, Tactile Saltation)
- A perceptual phenomenon in which a series of rapid taps delivered at discrete locations on the skin are perceived as a continuous movement or hopping sensation across the surface between the tap point…
- Skin Stretch Display (Skin Stretch, Lateral Skin Deformation Display, STReSS)
- A type of haptic display technology that produces tactile feedback by laterally stretching the skin of the user's fingertip, rather than using raised pins or vibration. Skin stretch displays typically…
- Spatio-Temporal Modulation (STM)
- A rendering technique used in mid-air ultrasound haptics in which a single focal point is moved rapidly along a closed trajectory (commonly circular) while its intensity is modulated over time. When t…
- Surface Haptics (Surface Haptic Technology)
- A branch of haptic technology that creates tactile sensations directly on a flat surface, such as a touchscreen, by modulating the friction between a fingertip and the display. Unlike conventional vib…
- Tactile Captions (Haptic Captions, Vibrotactile Captions)
- An enhanced captioning approach that supplements traditional text-based captions with vibrotactile feedback, allowing deaf and hard of hearing viewers to feel non-speech sounds (such as phone rings, d…
- Tactile Dowsing
- An interaction technique that uses vibrotactile feedback to guide a user toward a target direction in space without visual cues. The term draws an analogy to water dowsing, where a divining rod suppos…
- Tactile Exploration Strategy (Haptic Exploration Strategy, Touch Exploration Pattern)
- A systematic approach or pattern that a person uses when exploring tactile graphics, maps, or other touch-based representations. Research has identified several distinct strategies: "following outline…
- Tactile Stimulation (Tactile Feedback, Cutaneous Stimulation)
- Tactile stimulation refers to the use of physical sensations delivered to the skin to convey information, typically through vibrations, pin arrays, textures, or pressure changes. In assistive technolo…