Human Haptic Perception : Basics and Applications - Grunwald, Martin; SpringerLink (Online service) (Basel : Birkhäuser Basel : Imprint: Birkhäuser, 2008)
Epistemological and historical aspects -- Haptic perception: an historical approach -- German pioneers of research into human haptic perception -- British pioneers of research into human haptic perception -- Early psychological studies on touch in France -- Haptics in the United States before 1940 -- Neurophysiological and physiological aspects -- Anatomy of receptors -- Physiological mechanisms of the receptor system -- Neural basis of haptic perception -- The neural bases of haptic working memory -- Neuronal plasticity of the haptic system -- Psychological aspects -- Haptic perception in the human foetus -- Haptic behavior in social interaction -- Learning effects in haptic perception -- Implicit and explicit memory effects in haptic perception -- Attention in sense of touch -- Haptic object identification -- Haptic perceptual illusions -- Haptic perception in interaction with other senses -- Haptically evoked activation of visual cortex -- Haptic perception and synaesthesia -- Haptic perception in sexuality -- Haptic perception in space travel -- Clinical and neuropsychological aspects -- Phantom sensations -- The neuroscience and phenomenology of sensory loss -- Focal dystonia: diagnostic, therapy, rehabilitation -- Self-injurious behavior -- Haptic perception in infancy and first acquisition of object words: Developmental and clinical approach -- Haptic perception in anorexia nervosa -- Haptic interfaces and devices -- History of haptic interface -- Principles of haptic perception in virtual environments -- Haptic shape cues, invariants, priors and interface design -- Design guidelines for generating force feedback on fingertips using haptic interfaces -- Haptic rendering and control -- Haptic perception in human robotic systems -- Applications -- Haptic design of vehicle interiors at AUDI -- Visual-haptic interfaces in car design at BMW -- Haptics research at Daimler AG -- Haptic design of handles -- Vestibular sensory substitution using tongue electrotactile display -- The blind get a taste of vision -- Tactile ground surface indicators in public places -- HapticWalker - Haptic foot device for gait rehabilitation -- Haptic sensing of virtual textiles -- Haptic discrimination of paper -- Haptic banknote design -- Get touched - Bodycare as a design of media for self-perception.
Keywords: Neurosciences; Neuropsychology; Neurobiology; Human physiology; Neurosciences; Neuropsychology; Neurobiology; Human Physiology