Development of a system that stimulates tactile sensation of water flow

Abstract

Recently, many products combining not only function but also sensibility such as appearance and tactile sensation are made. That tendency is the same for hand washing faucets, and the tactile sensation is important for the hand washing faucets. Tactile sensation of water flow is composed of multiple stimuli. In this paper, we reproduced these stimuli by multiple devices and developed a haptic display that can present tactile sensation of water flow to one’s hand. Moreover, artificial tactile sensation of multiple forms of water flow, that reproduced by adjusting value of each device’s parameter, generated by the haptic display were evaluated by subjective evaluation.