Potential impact of project results for basic research, technologies and application systems:

• Applications of high socio-economic relevance in medical training and diagnosis related to palpation, tele-cooperation in industrial or architectural construction and entertainment
  
  
• New insight into the perceptional and neural mechanisms involved in multi-modal interaction
  
  
• Numerous novel haptic interfaces and demon-strative multimodal integrated systems
  
  
• New methods for the acquisition of geometric components of haptic interaction in 3D
  
  
• Theoretical and algorithmic basis for the enrichment of pure visual mixed reality systems by haptic feedback