Howdy! We are looking for participants in a study led by Dr. Rebecca Friesen in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Our study will be held in the Health Technology Building (600 Discovery Drive) or in JCain room 410 (180 Spence St, College Station, TX 77840).

We are conducting a research study on the human perception of tactile information and are looking for participants to take part in the study.

This experiment will explore how participants interpret haptic data when passively feeling a haptic interaction performed by someone else. It will be performed on a virtual testbed, in which the participant will wear a commercially available haptic display glove (WeArt TouchDiver), interact with virtual objects felt through the glove, and observe interactions of a virtual hand controlled by the experimenter in a virtual environment built in Unity and displayed on a Desktop monitor. Participants will feel a variety of virtual shapes through interactions with the glove, and be asked to answer questions about the interactions such as shape size and ease of identifying it.

The experiment has been approved under IRB2024-0110 on 4/18/2024. You are eligible for this study if you are above 18 years old, right-hand dominant, and have healthy hands and healthy fingertip skin. I am emailing to ask if you would like to participate in this research for about 60 minutes to complete the experiment. Experiments will be performed at INVENT lab in HTIB (600 Discovery Drive) or JCain Building (180 Spence St).

Your participation will be rewarded with a $15 gift card per hour of participation, and your data will be confidential and protected. If you are interested, and you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact Pijuan Yu: pijuanyu@tamu.edu.

Thank you for your time!