Table of Contents

Epistemological and historical aspects.- Haptic perception: an historical approach.- German pioneers of research into human haptic perception.- British pioneers of research into human haptic perception.- Early psychological studies on touch in France.- Haptics in the United States before 1940.- Neurophysiological and physiological aspects.- Anatomy of receptors.- Physiological mechanisms of the receptor system.- Neural basis of haptic perception.- The neural bases of haptic working memory.- Neuronal plasticity of the haptic system.- Psychological aspects.- Haptic perception in the human foetus.- Haptic behavior in social interaction.- Learning effects in haptic perception.- Implicit and explicit memory effects in haptic perception.- Attention in sense of touch.- Haptic object identification.- Haptic perceptual illusions.- Haptic perception in interaction with other senses.- Haptically evoked activation of visual cortex.- Haptic perception and synaesthesia.- Haptic perception in sexuality.- Haptic perception in space travel.- Clinical and neuropsychological aspects.- Phantom sensations.- The neuroscience and phenomenology of sensory loss.- Focal dystonia: diagnostic, therapy, rehabilitation.- Self-injurious behavior.- Haptic perception in infancy and first acquisition of object words: Developmental and clinical approach.- Haptic perception in anorexia nervosa.- Haptic interfaces and devices.- History of haptic interface.- Principles of haptic perception in virtual environments.- Haptic shape cues, invariants, priors and interface design.- Design guidelines for generating force feedback on fingertips using haptic interfaces.- Haptic rendering and control.- Haptic perception in human robotic systems.- Applications.- Haptic design of vehicle interiors at AUDI.- Visual-haptic interfaces in car design at BMW.- Haptics research at Daimler AG.- Haptic design of handles.- Vestibular sensory substitution using tongue electrotactile display.- The blind get a taste of vision.-Tactile ground surface indicators in public places.- HapticWalker — Haptic foot device for gait rehabilitation.- Haptic sensing of virtual textiles.- Haptic discrimination of paper.- Haptic banknote design.- Get touched — Bodycare as a design of media for self-perception.