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This guide explores haptic technology in 21st century libraries! This guide will cover an explanation of haptic technology, why it matters for 21st century libraries, as well as linked resources for continued learning about haptic tech.

Haptic Technology

Haptic technology is technology that incorporates tactile feedback as part of its interface, creating a sense of touch through vibration or other movement. When considering library services, haptic technology has the potential to revolutionize library services and education, especially for users with disabilities.

As libraries work to make resources available to a wider audience, including those with visual or audio disabilities, haptic technologies could become a significant part of accessibility. This technology would allow individuals with disabilities to receive tactile feedback from phones and tablets such as a smart phone interface that allows users to “feel” buttons as they scroll over the flat surface; digital photo features that allow users to detect faces or orientation by producing a textural quality in the interface; or even a braille-like sensation over letters in text messages or web pages that users can easily feel.

Drexel Library Books on Haptic Technology

Advances, Applications and the Future of Haptic Technology by Mohammad Amin Kuhail; Jose Berengueres; Fatma Taher; Mariam Al Kuwaiti
ISBN: 9783031705878
Publication Date: 2024-10-17
Are you a technologist or innovator looking to stay ahead in the rapidly evolving world of haptic technology? "Advances, Applications and the Future of Haptic Technology" is your essential guide to understanding and predicting trends that can shape how you use haptics in your products and strategies. This book begins by defining haptic technology and its classifications. It then traces the evolution of haptic feedback systems and explores their historical significance. Through real-world case studies, the book demonstrates how haptic feedback is reshaping industries like healthcare and gaming, enhancing medical training, and creating immersive gaming experiences. For innovators, the book addresses the challenges of implementing haptic technology across various domains, highlighting technical complexities and ergonomic considerations. For technologists, this book provides insights into the trade-offs of adopting haptics, examining the evolution of these systems with a focus on personal communication devices and the automotive industry. It also analyzes the factors influencing impact and features foresight frameworks to provide you with strategies for the future of haptic innovation. Additionally, the book explores intellectual property trends in the health, gaming, and automotive sectors to highlight key haptic innovations. Get your copy today and harness haptic technology to shape your future!
Haptic Interfaces for Accessibility, Health, and Enhanced Quality of Life by Troy McDaniel (Editor); Sethuraman Panchanathan (Editor)
ISBN: 9783030342296
Publication Date: 2019-12-19
This book is the first resource to provide in-depth coverage on topical areas of assistive, rehabilitative, and health-related applications for haptic (touch-based) technologies. Application topics are grouped into thematic areas spanning haptic devices for sensory impairments, health and well-being, and physical impairments which are illustrated in this book. A diverse group of experts in the field were invited to contribute different chapters to provide complementary and multidisciplinary perspectives. Unlike other books on haptics, which focus on human haptic perception, specific modalities of haptics (e.g., realistic haptic rendering), or broadly cover the subfields of haptics, this book takes an application-oriented approach to present a tour of how the field of haptics has been advanced with respect to important, impactful thematic focuses. Under Theme 1 "Sensory Impairments", haptics technologies to support individuals with sensory impairments is presented which includes: Spatial awareness in sensory impairments through touch; Haptically-assisted interfaces for persons with visual impairments; and Enabling learning experiences for visually impaired children by interaction design. Under Theme 2 "Haptics for Health and Well-Being", haptics technologies aimed at supporting exercise and healthy aging will be covered including: Haptics in rehabilitation, exergames and health; Therapeutic haptics for mental health and well-being; and Applications of haptics in medicine. Under Theme 3 "Haptics for Physical Impairments", haptics technologies for enhancing the quality of life for individuals with weakened/impaired limbs or neurological diseases impacting movement is targeted including: Assistive soft exoskeletons with pneumatic artificial muscles; Haptics for accessibility in rehabilitative hardware; and intelligent robotics and immersive displays for enhancing haptic interaction in physical rehabilitation environments. Engineers, scientists, and researchers working in the areas of haptics, multimedia, virtual/augmented/mixed-reality, human-computer interaction, assistive technologies, rehabilitative technologies, healthcare technologies, and/or actuator design will want to purchase this book. Advanced level students and hobbyists interested in haptics will also be interested in this book.
Haptic Technology: An Intelligent Approach to Future Man-Machine Interaction by Ahmad Hoirul Basori (Editor); Sharaf J. Malebary (Editor); Omar M. Barukab (Editor)
ISBN: 9781803550664
Publication Date: 2022-08-17
These days, people's desire for an evolutionary interface is strong. The new model of human-machine interaction is expected to be more realistic and immersive. Haptic technology plays a key role in this regard. It can be used for medical, robotics, and digital heritage applications. Over three sections and five chapters, this book examines these potential uses of haptics. Chapters discuss using haptic feedback to improve robotic perception, for medical simulations, and to enhance digital heritage documentation.
Haptic Interfaces for Accessibility, Health, and Enhanced Quality of Life by Troy McDaniel (Editor); Sethuraman Panchanathan (Editor)
ISBN: 9783030342296
Publication Date: 2019-12-19
This book is the first resource to provide in-depth coverage on topical areas of assistive, rehabilitative, and health-related applications for haptic (touch-based) technologies. Application topics are grouped into thematic areas spanning haptic devices for sensory impairments, health and well-being, and physical impairments which are illustrated in this book. A diverse group of experts in the field were invited to contribute different chapters to provide complementary and multidisciplinary perspectives. Unlike other books on haptics, which focus on human haptic perception, specific modalities of haptics (e.g., realistic haptic rendering), or broadly cover the subfields of haptics, this book takes an application-oriented approach to present a tour of how the field of haptics has been advanced with respect to important, impactful thematic focuses. Under Theme 1 "Sensory Impairments", haptics technologies to support individuals with sensory impairments is presented which includes: Spatial awareness in sensory impairments through touch; Haptically-assisted interfaces for persons with visual impairments; and Enabling learning experiences for visually impaired children by interaction design. Under Theme 2 "Haptics for Health and Well-Being", haptics technologies aimed at supporting exercise and healthy aging will be covered including: Haptics in rehabilitation, exergames and health; Therapeutic haptics for mental health and well-being; and Applications of haptics in medicine. Under Theme 3 "Haptics for Physical Impairments", haptics technologies for enhancing the quality of life for individuals with weakened/impaired limbs or neurological diseases impacting movement is targeted including: Assistive soft exoskeletons with pneumatic artificial muscles; Haptics for accessibility in rehabilitative hardware; and intelligent robotics and immersive displays for enhancing haptic interaction in physical rehabilitation environments. Engineers, scientists, and researchers working in the areas of haptics, multimedia, virtual/augmented/mixed-reality, human-computer interaction, assistive technologies, rehabilitative technologies, healthcare technologies, and/or actuator design will want to purchase this book. Advanced level students and hobbyists interested in haptics will also be interested in this book.

Journal Articles

Haptic technology – potential for library services
The subject of the paper is haptic technology considered as a tool for improving the performance of libraries. The purpose of this paper is to determine the potential of this technology in the design of innovative library services. Specific goals include description of the ideas and features of haptic technology, identification of the main areas of application of haptic technology and outlining the possible uses of haptic technology in library services.
“Through the looking glass: envisioning new library technologies” an experience you can feel: haptic technology
The previous column on educational trends briefly mentioned haptic technology in the context of the future of educational technologies (Fernandez, 2017). However, haptic technology is important enough to merit further consideration on its own terms. Haptic technology is a term that encompasses a set of rapidly evolving technologies centering on recreating the sense of touch, with a wide range of applications, and is poised to influence a wide range of industries and transform how we interact with technology. This paper aims to provide an overview of what haptic technology is and elucidate some of the crucial ways it is likely to develop in the future.
Wearable computing in libraries – applications that meet the needs of users and librarians
The subject of this paper is wearable computing technology. The purpose of this paper is to determine its potential in libraries to meet the needs of both users and librarians.
Haptic technology and its application in education and learning
Haptic technology provides a new human-computer interactive method, which allows the user to feel the motion and haptic information in virtual environment with haptic devices, and it's also a new kind of learning means. In this paper we explained the basic concepts of haptic technology and how haptic technology works, followed by a summary of main haptic devices and the key technologies included in haptic technology. Through our work of analysis and summary of the haptic application in education and learning, we found that it features with diversified education and teaching levels, education and teaching subjects and education and teaching forms.

References

Haptic technology. American Library Association. (n.d.). https://www.ala.org/future/trends/haptic