Haptography: Digitizing our sense of touch - Katherine Kuchenbecker

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/haptography-digitizing-our-sense-of-touch-katherine-kuchenbecker Can the sense of touch be harnessed with technology? The field of haptics explores...

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Translator: Andrea McDonough Reviewer: Morton BastI'm a mechanical engineering professorat the University of Pennsylvania,and my favorite hobby is photography.And as I travel around the world,I love taking photographs like these,so I can remember all the beautiful and interesting thingsthat I've seen.But what I can't do is record and sharehow these objects feel to touch.And that's kind of surprising,because your sense of touch is really important.It's involved in every physical interaction you do every day,every manipulation task, anything you do in the world.So the sense of touch is actually pretty interesting.It has two main components.The first is tactile sensations,things you feel in your skin.And the second is kinesthetic s...