Haptics

De: Lynette Jones

Narrado por: Teri Schnaubelt

An accessible, nontechnical overview of active touch sensing, from sensory receptors in the skin to tactile surfaces on flat-screen displays.

Haptics, or haptic sensing, refers to the ability to identify and perceive objects through touch. This is active touch, involving exploration of an object with the hand rather than the passive sensing of a vibration or force on the skin. The development of new technologies, including prosthetic hands and tactile surfaces for flat screen displays, depends on our knowledge of haptics. In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Lynette Jones offers an accessible overview of haptics, or active touch sensing, and its applications.

Jones explains that haptics involves integrating information from touch and kinesthesia - that is, information both from sensors in the skin and from sensors in muscles, tendons, and joints. The challenge for technology is to reproduce in a virtual world some of the sensations associated with physical interactions with the environment.

©2018 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (P)2019 Gildan Media, LLC

Informative book

Now I want more. and I wish I could pose questions to the author.... oh well maybe I will find more reads like it.

Great overview. Narration is a bit lacking and so are helpful examples/anecdotes/story/meaningful elaboration

First, it’s worth it and I’m glad there’s an audiobook of this level of sophistication. Its well worth listening to it if you can tolerate the droning but clear voice. Her voice wasn’t onerous, but, god, it was like she was reading a dictionary. Interesting content fell flat.

The content is understandable and informative, but it could have been usefully longer by adding helpful examples and a little more story, which could have helped the author break up the monotony and the narrator add some emphasis and emotion. The hunger for the new information was the only thing that drove me through. If I didn’t need the info for a product design, I’d probably have quit. Or read the book. Unfortunately, I didn’t have time to read.

That said. It was worth it. The book covered very new topics that will get you into the topic fast.