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Does Sharing Lead to Smarter Products? Managing Information Flows for Collective Servitization

Peer-to-peer sharing induces persistent changes in product design. Besides bifurcating product durability, this adaptation increases the compatibility of collaborative use with rent extraction—from a producer’s viewpoint. For owners it decreases the commit ...

Springer2023

PopTouch: A Submillimeter Thick Dynamically Reconfigured Haptic Interface with Pressable Buttons

Herbert Shea, Amir Firouzeh, Ayana Mizutani

The interactions with touchscreens rely heavily on vision: The virtual buttons and virtual sliders on a touchscreen provide no mechanical sense of the object they seek to represent. This work presents PopTouch: a 500 mu m thick flexible haptic display that ...

Weinheim2023

Wall of Memories - Exploring the Claude Nicollier Video Archives

Giacomo Alliata

Wall of Memories is part of the Cosmos Archeology exhibition, to be held in Spring 2022 at EPFL Pavilions, Lausanne. The installation aims at exploring the Claude Nicollier Video Archives, a collection of audiovisual content about the life and career of fa ...

EPFL2021

Demonstrator Surface For Machine Learning Algorithm

In the ﬁeld of haptic feedback, LAI is working on a way of localizing impact vibrations through machine learning algorithms. In this semester project, the goal is to extend a one-dimensional system into a two-dimensional system with a demonstrator surface ...

2021

Design and development of a haptic feedback demonstrator using time-reversal method and FPGAS

Andrés Chica Linares

The EPFL-LAI is investigating on haptic technologies to give vibrotactile feedback in digital musical interfaces. The aim is to develop an interactive surface that can render a multi-touch vibrotactile stimulus using piezoelectric actuators. The signals th ...

2021

Sensorimotor processing in the rodent barrel cortex

Carl Petersen

Tactile sensory information from facial whiskers provides nocturnal tunnel-dwelling rodents, including mice and rats, with important spatial and textural information about their immediate surroundings. Whiskers are moved back and forth to scan the environm ...

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP2019

A Tangible Programming Language for the Educational Robot Thymio

Francesco Mondada, Alberto Piatti, Christian Giang, Andrea Mussati

In the past, the use of tangible programming languages has shown several advantages compared to screen-based graphical programming languages. Especially when presented to novices, such interfaces may represent a more intuitive and straightforward alternati ...

2019

A Compact Modular Soft Surface With Reconfigurable Shape and Stiffness

Jamie Paik, Matthew Aaron Robertson, Wyatt Marshall Felt, Masato Murakami

A variety of reconfigurable surface devices, utilizing large numbers of actuated physical pixels to produce discretized 3D contours, have been developed for different purposes in research and industry. The difficulty of integrating many actuators in close ...

2018

Keep in Touch

Herbert Shea, Juan José Zarate, Olexandr Gudozhnik, Anthony Sébastien Ruch

We present a portable 12x16 taxel haptic display optimized to rapidly display dynamic graphical information. Each taxel changes state (up/down) in under 5 milliseconds, allowing the entire display of 192 independent taxels to be refreshed in under 2 second ...

ACM Press2017

Learning new movements after paralysis: Results from a home-based study

Camilla Pierella, Ismael Seanez Gonzalez, Ali Farshchiansadegh

Body-machine interfaces (BMIs) decode upper-body motion for operating devices, such as computers and wheelchairs. We developed a low-cost portable BMI for survivors of cervical spinal cord injury and investigated it as a means to support personalized assis ...

Nature Publishing Group2017

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