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Haptic perception (Greek: haptόs "palpable", haptikόs "suitable for touch") means literally the ability "to grasp something", and is also known as stereognosis. Perception in this case is achieved through the active exploration of surfaces and objects by a moving subject, as opposed to passive contact by a static subject during tactile perception. [1]
Haptic technology facilitates investigation of how the human sense of touch works by allowing the creation of controlled haptic virtual objects. Most researchers distinguish three sensory systems related to sense of touch in humans: cutaneous , kinaesthetic and haptic .
Haptic memory is the form of sensory memory specific to touch stimuli. Haptic memory is used regularly when assessing the necessary forces for gripping and interacting with familiar objects. [ 1 ] It may also influence one's interactions with novel objects of an apparently similar size and density.
In addition to the interplay of haptic communication and nonverbal communication, haptic cues as primers have been looked at as a means of decreasing reaction time for identifying a visual stimulus. [20] Subjects were placed in a chair fitted with a back which provided haptic cues indicating where the stimulus would appear on a screen.
Haptic perception relies on the forces experienced during touch. [24] Professor Gibson defined the haptic system as "the sensibility of the individual to the world adjacent to his body by use of his body." [25] Gibson and others emphasized the close link between body movement and haptic perception, where the latter is active exploration.
The environment acts as an external stimulus, and tactile perception is the act of passively exploring the world to simply sense it. To make sense of the stimuli, an organism will undergo active exploration, or haptic perception, by moving their hands or other areas with environment-skin contact. [16]
The research field is originated with the Dzmitry Tsetserukou and Alena Neviarouskaya papers [1] [2] on affective haptics and real-time communication system with rich emotional and haptic channels. Driven by the motivation to enhance social interactivity and emotionally immersive experience of users of real-time messaging, virtual, augmented ...
Haptic communication, the means by which people and other animals communicate via touching; Haptic perception, the process of recognizing objects through touch; Haptic poetry, a liminal art form combining characteristics of typography and sculpture; Haptic technology, technology that interfaces with the user through the sense of touch