What I have learned

I thought that Haptics was only through feel and human touche, and was blow away when I found that it also can be used through technology. I feel that my group members did truly well and that I was the only one to turn in everything late. I also feel that we all have and can take something back from this project. Other then those thoughts I have learned from each person in my group and found their information on Haptics very useful and will apply these new concepts in everyday life.
Thank you group for helping me and doing such a great job,

Works Cited

Works Cited:

Kenneth Salisbury
Conti demonstrates a haptic interface
Salisbury Research Group
Haptics Community
SensAble Technologies
ForceDimension
Stanford News
Stanford Homepage
Stanford University
Vikas Kamble
Zuidhoek S, Kappers AM, Postma A

Online addresses for works cited above:

http://www.esterline.com/interfacetechnologies/Technologies/Touch/HapticTouchProducts/TouchScreen.aspx
Pic 2- http://news.softpedia.com/newsImage/What-Is-Haptics-and-How-Does-It-Feel-2.jpg/
Helmholtz Institute, Psychological Laboratory, Utrecht University, Heidelberglaan 2, 3584 CS Utrecht, The Netherlands.
online address- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16904136
online address- http://www.psychology-lexicon.com/cms/glossary/glossary-h/haptics.html
online address- http://www.slideshare.net/VikasKamble3/hapticsvikas-kamble

Guiding

"When a person is physically moving, a touch on the body, usually the back, shoulder or arm can guide them in the right direction."

Punishment

Touch can be negative. A slap or a punch sends a very strong negative message (that may well get the message sender into very deep trouble!).

Gaining attention

"When you touch another person who is talking or otherwise engaged elsewhere, they are very likely to turn their attention to you. Touching here is very much in safe areas, such as the arm or shoulder. Saying their name at the same time reinforces strongly this move."

Sex

“The present study examined sex differences in haptic orientation representation using three tasks: a bimanual parallel-setting task comprising haptic orientation perception and motor matching action, and two unimanual tasks focusing on the perception and action elements separately. A verbal judgment task focused on haptic orientation perception: participants were to assign a number of minutes to a felt orientation. An orientation production task required the rotation of a bar to match a verbally presented number of minutes. Although both male and female performance was systematically biased we found that males are more accurate in parallel-setting and verbal judgment of orientation, suggesting differences in haptic orientation perception, in particular. Increasing allocentric reference frame involvement by delaying the action in the parallel-setting task did not affect the sex difference found. In addition to a male advantage over tasks, performance on both unimanual tasks suggests sex differences in lateralization of haptic orientation processing; a dependence on hand orientation was found only for right hand performance in males.”

Social

One example of a typically confusing heptic action is the hand shake. The handshake differs in degrees, length and strength between the various levels of intimacy (or gets completely replaced by more intimate heptic behaviour), and from culture to culture.