Virtual reality is revolutionizing the user experience in different fields, also through the integration of advanced haptic devices. Within the SUN project, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna is developing these devices to enhance the user experience in immersive and non-immersive virtual environments with engaging and interactive tactile feedback. By utilizing small actuators and soft materials, more compact and comfortable wearable haptic devices can be built, to be part of a plug-n-play equipment for the user. The haptic glove is an example, as an easy to wear device and able to provide physical feedback during interaction with virtual objects, providing little torques on the wrist. This makes the interaction more natural and realistic, leading to a higher engagement. This would be useful not only as an entertainment tool but also as a way to bring physical stimuli in rehabilitation contexts, with the aim of building more motivating and effective rehabilitation therapies.
Haptic glove in rehabilitation therapies
