Haptic communication system using cutaneous actuators for simulation of continuous human touch
摘要
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The user interaction manager 292 receives communications about user haptic communication internal to and/or external to the social networking system 228, populating the user interaction store 288 with information about user interactions. Interactions received by the user interaction manager 292 may include expressing an emotional preference for words in a haptic lexicon. In addition, a number of actions may involve one or more particular users, so these actions are associated with those users as well and stored in the user interaction store 288. The user interaction manager 292 may determine the time a user performed an interaction by a timestamp in the haptic illusion signals 202 or sensor signals 207 representing the interaction.
The transmitting device 240 includes input devices 296 such as a keyboard or pointing device to receive, such as a selection of a certain word from the lexicon. For example, a user may type in a word such as “Greeting,” “Parting,” “Consoling,” etc., using the input device 296 and the social networking system 228 may generate haptic illusion signals 202 corresponding to these words.
The haptic communication system 200 may include a receiving device 268 that receives haptic illusion signals 202 from the social networking system 228 over the network 260 and transmit the haptic illusion signals 202 to cutaneous actuators 208. In one embodiment, the receiving device 268 may include an interface circuit that the haptic illusion signals 202 from the network 260. The receiving device 268 may generate actuator signals 272 corresponding to the haptic illusion signals 202.
