Haptography: Digitizing our sense of touch - Katherine Kuchenbecker

Can the sense of touch be harnessed with technology? The field of haptics explores the revolutionary: interactive touch technology. At TEDYouth 2012, Katherine Kuchenbecker discusses how haptics has the potential to change fields as disparate as museums, dentistry, and stroke rehabilitation.

Talk by Katherine Kuchenbecker.

[tankemall]

I am blown away by the cool things technology is starting to develop. I can't wait to see how all this progresses.

[AsantePE]

the possibilitys are truly magnificent with this kind of technology! keep it up Katherine and students

[howtolivehappily]

You're touching upon a very fascinating topic, that many people are unaware of. We tend to focus on sights and words, and often completely ignore the tactile/kinaesthetic side of life.

I've had this interest for a while, and it has helped me a lot with dancing, and feeling much better in my body. It never occurred to me that you can use it with technology.

[moleybear]

this is awesome. It great potential also for the vision impaired as the sense of touch is an extremely important sense

[MIKO]

I love the parrot on your team!
Also love the tech direction...

[latitudepost]

This is a truly game changing technology which will play an integral role in the further development of VR and shrinking the gap between the physical world and the virtual world

[thegig]

what a great presentation! I would love to be there watching it in person but the video works as well hahahaha

[chronicleone]

If you can simulate painting on a canvas surface or something with a pen device you should market that to fund all your other projects. I think a lot of artists are in halves about using smart pads to paint because they don't like the sensation of slick surfaces.

[Omnilatent]

So with this everyone can be a great guitarist or pianist in near future?

[rajamv]

here, not available download option, before it's available, presently remove the option why?
please it can updated this option

[JonathanAbbott]

To make the point a little more clear. Consider the dentist example. It would be so much cheaper to simply injection mold fake teeth that exhibit the characteristics you want (softness for cavities). As for dance, haptics might be slightly useful, but I doubt it will catch on. An instant reply with a visual (or just the live visual) suffices. And if someone had the money for all the fancy haptic equipment, they would have just gotten a personal trainer. I would be happy to hear your response.

[Kolop]

Still hope that a nerve gear is possible... if you know what i'm talking about you feel the same way. recording vibrations and how things feel would be very important to making the device work.

[elgracko]

i wonder if you could develop tele-haptography, where one uses light (generally em waves) and pulses of light to record textures and a materials hardness

could this system be equivalent to that pen she showed at the beggining?

remmeber that scene from daredevil where the girl is in the rain and the daredevil guy can see her face from the sound of the water hitting her face? maybe one could use sound too

[dibbidydoo]

So can you feel metallic surfaces with this?

[joshuahammond]

Instead of sequestering this information from me.
Until after i teach myself about this through numerous mistakes.
You could have posted this years ago.
And I'd have known what to have looked for

[YukonHexsun]

Oh we're gonna do that as soon as we get the chance, people are already working on it.

[finnstroll]

Uhm, is that a parrot among the students in the top right corner at 6:16?

[antivanti]

Please deinterlace videos before uploading kthxbye. If you view these videos in 1080p you get combs when viewed in 1080 and even worse waves if you view it another resolution.

[Versedian]

Made me think of the Spoke word by Marshall Davis Jones : "Touchscreen"

"Maybe one day our technology will be advanced enough to make us Human again."

[poppydephary]

far from it, while this technology helps with getting used to the surface texture, guitars and pianos require positional data which cant be learnt without practice. all it might do is make learning instrument tuning easier, since you relate the tension of the string to the sound

even so, i digress, the above hypothesis is based on the demo and current tech, most likely over time the simulations become more accurate and include more sensations outside of texture