As an introduction to tactile learning, have students wear blindfolds to practice using their sense of touch instead of sight and to begin thinking about designing for an end user who is blind or ...

Researchers from the Cortical Bionics Research Group have found a method to provide tactile sensation to spinal cord injury patients using a bionic arm, in a step that could significantly advance ...

Interpersonal touch can be used to convey emotion and encourage compliance, as can be observed in many recent political ...

Recent research illuminates striking differences in how men and women perceive, receive and initiate physical contact - ...

Take for example a non-verbal person who can’t necessarily control a touch screen in order to tell ... high actuation forces and have a crisp tactile response, which means they’re probably ...

This year, non-profit organisation Hair & Care created an "immersive tactile experience", allowing guests to touch runway pieces and hear detailed audio descriptions. Designers including Chet Lo, ...

Begej. "DIGIT Pinki is a type of vision-based tactile sensor that uses images from a miniature camera to get a sense of touch," Di explained. "Usually, these kinds of sensors are made up of an ...