Skin stretch feedback devices, systems, and methods
AssigneeUniversity of Utah Research Foundation
InventorsWilliam R. Provancher, Markus N. Montandon, Andrew J. Doxon, Nathan A. Caswell, Landon T. Gwilliam
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Abstract
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate devices, systems, methods, and for displaying information about the direction and magnitude of position, movement, and/or resistive force experienced for an object. The present disclosure also provides a shear display device that can generate skin shear with one or more tactors, each moving in a two- or three-dimensional space. The movement of the tactors can represent to a user various information about an object.
Claims20
A method for displaying force and movement information related to one or more objects, the method comprising:
- receiving information about one or more of movement of an object, forces experienced by the object, and torques experienced by the object;
- displaying the information to a user by concurrently stretching a plurality of portions of user's skin with a plurality of tactors of one or more shear display devices;
- and
- wherein at least one tactor of the plurality of tactors moves in a two-dimensional space or in a three-dimensional space.
A method for displaying force and movement information related to one or more objects, the method comprising:
- receiving information about one or more of rotations of an object and torque experienced by the object;
- isolating a first portion of a user's skin relative to a body of a shear display device;
- moving a first tactor of the shear display device in a first direction, the first tactor being in contact with the isolated first portion of the user's skin;
- isolating a second portion of a user's skin relative to a body of the shear display device;
- and
- moving a second tactor of the shear display device in a second direction, the second tactor being in contact with the isolated second portion of the user's skin, the second direction being opposite to the first direction.
A shear display device for displaying tactile information and cues to a user, the device comprising:
- a first body;
- a first tactor positioned along a portion of the first body, the first tactor being movable along a length of the portion of the first body in a first path;
- and
- a second tactor positioned along the portion of the first body, the second tactor being movable along the length of the portion of the first body in a second path, the second tactor being at least partly opposite to the first tactor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.