TU München: Person-to-Person interaction - A tactile sensing glove to get in touch…

The haptic interaction with the environment mainly depends on the human hand. It acquires different types of information. The first one is the amount and distribution of interaction force between the hand and an object while a human interacts with the environment. The Technische Universität München integrated a force measurement system into a wearable tactile sensing glove. The application areas enclose the interaction between two persons but also the manipulation of an object	Improved sensor positions shown on a rubber hand
The pressure sensitive sensors are mainly based on the electrical characteristics of a material varying with the pressure applied. An adapter converts the capacity or resistance of the sensor into such signals so that they can be processed and analysed by a computer. Three sensor pads are mounted on each finger and five additional ones on the palm, so that the main interesting areas in grasping tasks are covered. In a second step, the sensor positions based on findings of first experiments were improved. It showed that in this case, the interesting areas are not distributed over the whole hand but they are located on the small finger and near the index finger and thumb. Thus the glove design changed to these areas. This was particular useful for carrying out a study of the human handshake with real persons that will be later on reconstructed in a virtual setting (see figure below).
Actual version of sensing Glove
Related deliverables: Sensing system prototypes for multimodal interaction recording
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