Download - Technology Transfer: Haptic Feedback Explain technology transfer and technological innovation
Technology Transfer:Haptic Feedback
Explain technology transfer and technological innovation.
Haptic Feedback
• Something you can feel– Vibration– Texture– Pressure– Response to your touch
A Problem:
Modern touch screens have no “feeling” to them. They are smooth all over. You can’t feel where to put your fingers if you can’t see.
-A lack of haptic feedback
Where will this technology come from?
Ex of Technology Transfers
1st there was the Electric motor2nd they put a motor in a rumble pack next specialized motors were added to controllers to produce different vibrations
Look inside the controller. See the 2 motors?
low frequency (left motor)high frequency (right
motor)
Technology transfer occurs when somebody applies an existing innovation developed for one purpose in a new way.
Technology transfer is a kind ofTechnological innovation often results when ideas, knowledge, or skills
are shared within a technology, among technologies, or across fields.
Many ways to get haptic feedback in video games
Digital vs. Analog
Input devices controls:– Digital
•Reports only two states: on or off•Keyboard: keys•Controller A, B, X, Y, Back, Start, D-Pad
– Analog•Report a range of values: -1.0 to 1.0•Triggers, Stick
Notice how different kinds of controls have different kinds of
inputsInput Device
Digital Buttons
Analog Control
Vibration Win? Xbox? Number
Xbox 360Controller
14 4 Yes Yes Yes 4
Keyboard >100 0 No Yes Yes 1
Mouse 5 3 No Yes No 1
What is an example of the transfer of video game
controller technology to other technologies?
Minimally Invasive Surgeries
Things that were learned from making better controls in video games were applied to new computer-controlled tools for doing very precise micro surgery.
Fine tuned Remote control
What are other examples of the
transfer of haptic feedback technology to
other technologies?
Haptic Devices• These are all manipulator gloves that give
the user feedback depending on what they are touching virtually.
Cyber Glove II Cyber Grasp Cyber Force
Haptic Devices• Space Interface Device for Artificial
Reality (SPIDAR)
SPIDAR-8. Rubik’s Cube SPIDAR-8. Finger attachments.
Touchable Online Braille Generator
Words can be typed in ordinary English and translated into Braille.
They can be printed as bumps on a special printer.
Touchable Online Braille Generator Screen
Now they’re working on screens where you can actually feel the bumps.
Expensive Touchable Graphic
These are made of small metal cylinders that the computer controls to move up or down to create a touch image.
The Guide Cane•(Ulrich and Borenstein, 2001)
Haptics for Handicapped
This cane moves away from obstacles to guide a blind person automatically using its sensors
Haptics for Handicapped
•The ActiveBelt (Tsukada and Yasumrua, 2004)Device architecture of ActiveBelt:
GPS, global positioning system; LED, light-emitting diode.
This GPS guides a person by “poking” them in the direction they should go.
Future technologies that may benefit from Technology
Transfer• SMELL
– Smell is essentially our ability to detect specific chemical particles in the air
– We can detect about 4000 different smells
– And the smells can be combined in millions different ways
Where will it all lead?
Another future technology idea
THOUGHT:Detecting and interpreting brain
waves to control programs or machines.