Study on Body Positioning of Haptic Feedback in Simulated Human-Robot Cooperative Tasks

In this abstract, we present our preliminary studies toward the determination of a possible body position suitable for haptic feedback devices. Preliminary works on this topic have demonstrated the efficacy of haptic feedback to display to the user possible task information. However, for most of these signals a clear somatotopic mapping is not defined and previous researches present a set of possible solutions ranging from vibrating rings to bracelets and other devices. Here we investigate skin stretch as a possible haptic stimulus and we perform a user study considering three possible locations for the feedback.