Haptic Feedback Bilateral Interaction Method
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current human-machine interaction models neglect tactile sensation, leading to increased depression, anxiety, and mental health issues due to the lack of physical interaction in digital communication, which fails to fully convey contextual meaning and emotions.
Innovation Solution
A haptic-feedback bilateral human-machine interaction method that incorporates touch recognition, gesture recognition, and voice recognition, using electric-inducted materials, biosensors, and a haptic, tactile, and kinesthetic-based semantic database to translate digital inputs into tangible haptic feedback, enabling real-time two-way communication.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Device complexity
If existing communication devices transmit only audio and digital information, then device complexity is reduced, but tactile sensation and physical interaction are lost
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces haptic feedback actuators as intermediary devices that convert digital information into tactile sensations. These actuators serve as mediators between the digital communication channel and the user's tactile sense, enabling physical interaction sensation without complicating the core communication device architecture.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces traditional mechanical touch interfaces with electronic haptic feedback systems. Instead of requiring physical contact with mechanical components, the system uses electronically controlled haptic actuators to simulate tactile sensations, thereby reducing mechanical complexity while preserving tactile information.
2Adaptability or versatility
If remote digital interaction is used, then physical boundaries between users are transcended, but multimodal human senses including touch are neglected
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal communication system that handles multiple modalities (audio, visual, and tactile) through a single integrated platform. The haptic feedback system can convey various types of tactile information including touch, pressure, and texture, making the remote communication device universally capable of transmitting diverse sensory information.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent adds a tactile dimension to traditional two-dimensional digital communication. By incorporating haptic feedback, the system transforms flat digital information into multi-dimensional sensory experience, enabling users to perceive touch and physical interaction qualities in remote communication.
3Loss of information
If tactile feedback is incorporated into digital communication, then comprehension of contextual meaning and emotions is enhanced, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges haptic feedback functionality with existing communication devices by integrating actuators into the device housing or accessory components. This consolidation approach combines multiple functions (communication, haptic feedback, and sensory transmission) into a single unified device, enhancing contextual comprehension without proportionally increasing overall system complexity.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This solution provides a dual-layer interface for audio and tactile/kinesthetic feedback, enhancing the comprehension of conversation semantics and emotions, thereby mitigating the negative effects of tactile deprivation in remote communication.
Implementation Method 1
Physical inputs, captured as the pressure-proportional analogue signals, are then being converted into electric signals in the forms of changes of capacitance, resistance, or magnetics
Implementation Method 2
Physical inputs, captured as the pressure-proportional analogue signals, are then being converted into electric signals in the forms of changes of capacitance, resistance, or magnetics
Implementation Method 3
The CPU processes and interprets the haptic, tactile and kinesthetic feedback signals (including but not limited to vibration frequencies, vibration intensities, vibration intervals, vibration sequence in between an array of vibrational actuators, kinesthetic movements) into output signals, and to be applied to an array of haptic and kinesthetic feedback actuators
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AI summary
A haptic-feedback bilateral human-machine interaction method that enables the physicalization of remote digital interaction, which comprises three input methods S1, S2, S3, and one output and interaction implementation method S4. Compared to the prior arts, the invention has the following advantages: the solution is a dual-layers interface, comprising of a haptic-based tangible layer and an audio channel, through which introduces tactile and kinesthetic feedback into remote communication and translates gestures, facial expressions, tone of voice, and other tangible stimuli into haptic representations to augment the communication of emotions, feelings, semantics, and contextual meanings of the conversations. This dual-layers system forms a real-time two-way feedback loop that communicates audio as well as tactile and kinesthetic stimulations, which helps and augments people to comprehend the semantics, meanings, and contexts of the audio content or the conversation.