Modulating the weight perception of objects with haptic stimulation

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The 6-month internship will take place in the Seamless team at IRISA Rennes. The team specializes in human-computer interactions, haptics and virtual reality.

Virtual reality allows the creation of different environments, and users can interact with virtual objects. However, these virtual objects are intangible, so users don’t perceive force and tactile sensations (also called haptic feedback) when grasping them, and this major drawback makes their manipulations difficult. An interesting approach to overcome this issue is to represent virtual objects with physical ones (often 3D printing), called tangibles. These tangibles can take different shapes, sizes, or have different textures, but still struggle to display different weight. During the internship, the intern will explore how tangibles can be augmented with haptic feedback to render different weights sensations.

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