SENS3: Multisensory Database of Finger-Surface Interactions and Corresponding Sensations

Jagan K. Balasubramanian, Bence L. Kodak, Yasemin Vardar*

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The growing demand for natural interactions with technology underscores the importance of achieving realistic touch sensations in digital environments. Realizing this goal highly depends on comprehensive databases of finger-surface interactions, which need further development. Here, we present SENS3—www.sens3.net—an extensive open-access repository of multisensory data acquired from fifty surfaces when two participants explored them with their fingertips through static contact, pressing, tapping, and sliding. SENS3 encompasses high-fidelity visual, audio, and haptic information recorded during these interactions, including videos, sounds, contact forces, torques, positions, accelerations, skin temperature, heat flux, and surface photographs. Additionally, it incorporates thirteen participants’ psychophysical sensation ratings (rough–smooth, flat–bumpy, sticky–slippery, hot–cold, regular–irregular, fine–coarse, hard–soft, and wet–dry) while exploring these surfaces freely. Designed with an open-ended framework, SENS3 has the potential to be expanded with additional textures and participants. We anticipate that SENS3 will be valuable for advancing multisensory texture rendering, user experience development, and touch sensing in robotics.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationHaptics
Subtitle of host publicationUnderstanding Touch; Technology and Systems; Applications and Interaction
EditorsHiroyuki Kajimoto, Pedro Lopes, Claudio Pacchierotti, Cagatay Basdogan, Monica Gori, Betty Lemaire-Semail, Maud Marchal
Place of PublicationCham
PublisherSpringer
Pages262-277
Number of pages16
Volume1
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-031-70058-3
ISBN (Print)978-3-031-70057-6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2025
Event14th International Conference on Human Haptic Sensing and Touch Enabled Computer Applications, EuroHaptics 2024 - Lille, France
Duration: 30 Jun 20243 Jul 2024
https://eurohaptics.org/ehc2024/

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume14768 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference14th International Conference on Human Haptic Sensing and Touch Enabled Computer Applications, EuroHaptics 2024
Abbreviated titleEuroHaptics 2024
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityLille
Period30/06/243/07/24
Internet address

Bibliographical note

Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care
Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.

Keywords

  • Dataset
  • Haptic
  • Multisensory
  • Sensation
  • Surface

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