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Restoration of natural thermal sensation in upper-limb amputees

Solaiman Shokur, Simon Gallo, Giulio Rognini, Silvestro Micera, Jonathan Louis Muheim, Outman Akouissi

The use of hands for gathering rich sensory information is essential for proper interaction with the environment; therefore, the restoration of sensation is critical for reestablishing the sense of embodiment in hand amputees. Here, we show that a noninvas ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2023

Multisensory haptic system and method

Olaf Blanke, Simon Gallo, Giulio Rognini

A computer-implemented method for operating a haptic device, the haptic device comprising a plurality of tactile displays configured to provide haptic stimuli to a user, the method including the steps of (a) processing an audio signal derived from an audio ...

2020

Method and system for creating an out-of-body experience

Bruno Herbelin, Olaf Blanke, Simon Gallo, Giulio Rognini, Florian Lance

A computer-implemented method for inducing an Out of Body Experience (OBE) in a user through an augmented/virtual reality (AR/VR) system, the OBE including an exit state and a disembodiment state, the method comprising the steps of (a) changing the user vi ...

2020

Multimodal Haptic Device, System, and Method of Using the Same

Simon Gallo, Giulio Rognini, Tobias Lukas Rolf Bützer

A multimodal haptic device operating as a closed-loop system, the device including a pipeline configured to allow a closed-loop flow of a fluid medium, a manifold operatively connected to the pipeline, the manifold having a pump and a valve to control and ...

2016

Wearable multimodal tactile interfaces for augmenting haptic perception

Simon Gallo

Haptic feedback has been used to faithfully restitute the haptic sense lacking during telemanipulation, but also for providing auxiliary information via the haptic channel to restore functional perception of missing or damaged senses, e.g. sensory substitu ...

EPFL2016

A flexible multimodal tactile display for delivering shape and material information

Hannes Bleuler, Simon Gallo

The growing complexity of telemanipulation tasks calls for increased realism and intuitiveness of the interaction between the user and the master control. Humans perceive multiple haptic features of an object such as its stiffness, temperature, and shape, ...

Elsevier2015

Encoded and Crossmodal Thermal Stimulation through a Fingertip-Sized Haptic Display

Hannes Bleuler, Olaf Blanke, Simon Gallo, Laura Santos Carreras, Giulio Rognini, Tristan Hubert Vouga

2015

Design and Control of a novel Thermo-tactile Multimodal Display

Hannes Bleuler, Simon Gallo

This paper describes the design and control of a water-based multimodal haptic display. The system is able to provide temperature and pressure (pulse) cues through a finger-sized display. Temperature feedback is obtained by mixing hot and cold water stored ...

Ieee2014

Augmented White Cane with Multimodal Haptic Feedback

Hannes Bleuler, Roger Gassert, Dominique Chapuis, Simon Gallo, Laura Santos Carreras

This paper proposes an instrumented handle with multimodal augmented haptic feedback, which can be integrated into a conventional white cane to extend the haptic exploration range of visually impaired users. The information extracted from the environment t ...

IEEE2010