Role of Indentation Depth and Contact Area on Human Perception of Softness for Haptic Interfaces (3 (VIDEO)

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Co-senior author Charles Dhong describes a new study on how to recreate softness. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the August 30th, 2019, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by C. Dhong at University of California, San Diego in La Jolla, CA, and colleagues was titled, " Role of indentation depth and contact area on human perception of softness for haptic interfaces."

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Credit: Liezel Labios/UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering

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