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Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Flexible piezoresistive pressure sensors underpin wearable and soft electronics. This review links sensing physics, including contact resistance modulation, quantum tunneling and percolation, to unified materials/structure design. We highlight composite and graded architectures, interfacial/porous engineering, and microstructured 3D conductive networks
Feng Luo +2 more
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Bioinspired Adaptive Sensors: A Review on Current Developments in Theory and Application
Advanced Materials, EarlyView.This review comprehensively summarizes the recent progress in the design and fabrication of sensory‐adaptation‐inspired devices and highlights their valuable applications in electronic skin, wearable electronics, and machine vision. The existing challenges and future directions are addressed in aspects such as device performance optimization ...
Guodong Gong +12 more
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Sensory, Affective, and Social Experiences with Haptic Devices in Intramural Care Practice
Nursing ReportsPrevious work has shown that technology can facilitate the communication of emotions, social touch, and social presence through haptic devices, meaning devices that provide a haptic stimulation.
Dianne Vasseur +4 more
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Protruding organic surfaces triggered by in-plane electric fields
Nature Communications, 2017 Effective haptic interfaces are advantageous for technology that involves human-computer interaction. Here Liu et al. fabricate thin liquid crystal polymer network coatings which can be modulated by applying an alternating electric field; such switchable
Danqing Liu +2 more
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Uncovering terra incognita in the AHD design space: A review of affective haptic devices
Frontiers in Computer Science, 2022 Affective haptic devices (AHDs) have been developed with the aim of communicating touch acts, symbolic messages, emotions, and/or providing a sense of social awareness.
Sima Ipakchian Askari +3 more
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Putting the feel in ’look and feel‘ [PDF]
, 2000 Haptic devices are now commercially available and thus touch has become a potentially realistic solution to a variety of interaction design challenges.
Brewster, S.A. +3 more
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Good Vibrations: Consumer Responses to Technology-Mediated Haptic Feedback
Journal of Consumer Research, 2019 Individuals often experience incidental device-delivered haptic feedback (e.g., vibrational alerts accompanying messages on mobile phones and wearables), yet almost no research has examined the psychological and behavioral implications of technology ...
Rhonda Hadi, A. Valenzuela
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Rapid Fabrication of Self‐Propelled and Steerable Magnetic Microcatheters for Precision Medicine
Advanced Materials, EarlyView.A rapid Joule heating fabrication method for the production of self‐propelling, adaptive microcatheters, with tunable stiffness and integrated microfluidic channels is presented. Demonstrated through three microrobotic designs, including a steerable guiding catheter, an untethered wave‐crawling TubeBot, and a distal‐end propelled microcatheter, it was ...
Zhi Chen +5 more
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PLoS ONEBackgroundThe integration of haptic simulators in contemporary dental education has been reported to improve students' hand-eye coordination and fine motor skills during pre-clinical education to facilitate a smooth transition to the clinical setting ...
Manal Matoug-Elwerfelli +5 more
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Enhancing User Experience in Virtual Museums: Impact of Finger Vibrotactile Feedback
Applied SciencesVirtual reality (VR) offers immersive visual and auditory experiences, transporting users to alternate realities. However, existing VR systems lack realistic haptic feedback mechanisms, resulting in unsatisfactory immersive experiences. In this study, we
Ravichandran Gayathri, Sanghun Nam
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