Technical details

Tactile feedback allows displaying texture and affordance. In conventional technologies, a single physical quantity is used to render haptic textures. In contrast, Our proposed system physically deforms and changes the physical force between the finger and the device. To achieve this, we combine magnetic and electrostatic fields. We use ferrofluid which is flexible liquid from the magnetic field, and electrovibration with adsorption force from the electrostatic field to develop this device. We investigated the increase in the variation of texture by comparing each single field methods.

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Exhibition content

Cross-Field Haptics is a haptics device. In this exhibition, you can actually touching the device, and you can experience the tactile presentation and interaction. We showcase the application to express by changing the softness and harshness at the same time using the technique of ferrofluid and electrovibration.