Disney Research launched their own technology named TeslaTouch back in 2010 that creates a "broad range of tactile sensations on touchscreens".
For younger children, the book "Pat the Bunny" is a good design guide, Mr. Schmidt said, in that it offers different surfaces and a range of tactile experiences.
Collecting the props for a sensory story can take a bit of planning, but the charity Bag Books provides a ready-made range of tactile and multi-sensory books, as well as offering story telling and training across the UK.
Varying the properties of the signal, such as the shape, amplitude, and frequency, can provide a wide range of tactile sensations, according to Ivan Poupyrev, another Disney research scientist working on the project.
Here we provide a more systematic investigation that not only tested tactile acuity, but a wide range of tactile, haptic, and sensorimotor tasks that differ in their relation to motor behavior and in their cognitive demands.
Together, the two provide a crucial combination — sensing and feedback — which allows for a new dimension of interaction through tactile pressure.
By this pathway, the medial lemniscal system conveys signals associated with tactile, pressure, and kinesthetic (or positional) sense to sensory areas of the cerebral cortex.
This paper presents the development of a new type of skin-like tactile pressure sensor array.
However, a reasonable tactile pressure range could be realized by varying one of the MWCNT-PDMS composite traits such as the CNT content, Young's modulus of PDMS, the thickness, or the CNT distribution.
One source of misunderstanding could be that the pressure level that we dealt with was slightly higher than the conventional range for tactile sensing pressure.
Tekscan tactile pressure sensors were employed in the pressure measurements.
