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FingersightTM Head: George D Stetten Contact: George D Stetten (george@stetten.com) Mailing address: Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Associated center: VASC Associated lab/group: Visualization and Image Analysis

This page last updated - January 1999.

Project Description

The idea behind Fingersight^TM is that a miniature video camera and a tactile stimulator can be attached to individual fingertips and, in conjunction with computer-vision algorithms, enable people to interact with the visible world by moving their fingers. Individual fingers, or groups of fingers, can thus point at and "feel" visual features of the environment, allowing the operator to explore, interpret and remotely control it.

Personnel

	Name	Title	Email Address
	John Galeotti	Postdoctoral Fellow	jgaleotti@cmu.edu
	Samantha Horvath	Undergraduate
	Roberta Klatzky	Professor	klatzky@cmu.edu
	Brock Nichol	Undergraduate
	Mel Siegel	Associate Research Professor	mws@cmu.edu
	George D Stetten	Associate Research Professor	george@stetten.com

Publications

Note: This list may not be comprehensive. It contains only those publications in the RI publications database. Entries are listed in reverse chronological order.

• Fingersight: Fingertip Visual Haptic Sensing and Control
  G.D. Stetten, R. Klatzky, B. Nichol, J. Galeotti, K. Rockot, K. Zawrotny, D. Weiser, N. Sendgikoski, and S. Horvath
  IEEE International Workshop on Haptic Audio Visual Environments and their Applications (HAVE 2007), October, 2007. [Abstract]
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• Fingertip Vibratory Transducer for Detecting Optical Edges using Regenerative Feedback
  K. Zawrotny, A. Craig, D. Weiser, R. Klatzky, and G.D. Stetten
  Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems, IEEE Virtual Reality 2006, March, 2006, pp. 373 - 374. [Abstract]
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