Positive Technology Journal

Wearable vibrotactile systems for virtual contact and information display

R.W. Lindeman, Y. Yanagida, H. Noma and K. Hosaka

Virtual Reality Volume 9, Numbers 2-3; Date: March 2006; Pages: 203 - 213

This paper presents a development history of a wearable, scalable vibrotactile stimulus delivery system. This history has followed a path from desktop-based, fully wired systems, through hybrid approaches consisting of a wireless connection from the host computer to a body-worn control box and wires to each tactor, to a completely wireless system employing Bluetooth technology to connect directly from the host to each individual tactor unit.