Tactile Score: A Knowledge Media for Tactile Sense

✍ Scribed by Yasuhiro Suzuki, Rieko Suzuki (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer Tokyo
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 46
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book deals with one of the most novel advances in natural computing, namely, in the field of tactile sense analysis. Massage, which provides relaxation and stimulation for human beings, is analyzed in this book for the first time by encoding the motions and tactile senses involved. The target audience is not limited to researchers who are interested in natural computing but also includes those working in ergonomic design, biomedical engineering, Kansei engineering, and cognitive science.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction....Pages 1-5
Tactile Workshop....Pages 7-14
Experiments Relating to Massage....Pages 15-20
Tactile Score, “Syoku-fu™”....Pages 21-26
Investigation of Massage by Using Tactile Score....Pages 27-29
Method of Composing Massage....Pages 31-34
Future Tactile Sense....Pages 35-37
Back Matter....Pages 39-41

✦ Subjects

Computational Intelligence; Simulation and Modeling; Biomedical Engineering; Computational Science and Engineering; Engineering Design