Tactile sensing is crucial for the dexterity of the human hand. The development of wearable solutions to elicit touch-related sensations could enhance haptic interactions, which is an essential goal when dealing with a wide class of diseases associated with sensory deficits. This presentation will focus on tactile sensing systems based on PVDF piezoelectric polymer arrays and non-invasive, distributed electrotactile stimulation interfaces as a feedback channel for human-in-the-loop control of haptic systems.
Lucia Seminara has a degree and PhD in Physics. From December 2019 she works as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Naval, Electrical, Electronic and Telecommunications Engineering (DITEN) of the University of Genoa. Her research focuses on developing electronic systems to artificially restore the sense of touch (e-skin). Her main current interests relate to closing the sensorimotor control loop in different applications (eg prosthetics, poststroke rehabilitation, virtual reality), using haptic interfaces to measure touch and give back touch information to the subject. Her competences are mainly focused at the intersection between materials and electronics, towards the development of wearable haptic interfaces. Recently her main interests shifted to human-machine interaction, more specifically on how to enable intuitive and effective communication between the wearable haptic device and humans. She is one of the two authors of an original and patented method for the reconstruction of contact force distributions starting from eskin sensor data.
Tactile sensing is crucial for the dexterity of the human hand. The development of wearable solutions to elicit touch-related sensations could enhance haptic interactions, which is an essential goal when dealing with a wide class of diseases associated with sensory deficits. This presentation will focus on tactile sensing systems based on PVDF piezoelectric polymer arrays and non-invasive, distributed electrotactile stimulation interfaces as a feedback channel for human-in-the-loop control of haptic systems.
Lucia Seminara has a degree and PhD in Physics. From December 2019 she works as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Naval, Electrical, Electronic and Telecommunications Engineering (DITEN) of the University of Genoa. Her research focuses on developing electronic systems to artificially restore the sense of touch (e-skin). Her main current interests relate to closing the sensorimotor control loop in different applications (eg prosthetics, poststroke rehabilitation, virtual reality), using haptic interfaces to measure touch and give back touch information to the subject. Her competences are mainly focused at the intersection between materials and electronics, towards the development of wearable haptic interfaces. Recently her main interests shifted to human-machine interaction, more specifically on how to enable intuitive and effective communication between the wearable haptic device and humans. She is one of the two authors of an original and patented method for the reconstruction of contact force distributions starting from eskin sensor data.
