HAptic SurfAces enhanced by Métamaterials – HASAME

Our daily life have seen the touchscreen emerge, as a cost-effective input device. As a result, vision becomes more predominant in the interaction, which leads to several disadvantages: they complicate the lives of visually impaired people, and they pose serious safety concerns in automotive application for instance. But introducing more haptic feedback into the interaction is a promising way to cope for these issues. Moreover, these past years have seen emerging technologies that adopt other material – like wood, leather or textile – to become haptic surfaces, ie. surfaces than can change how they are perceived by the users. This leads the industry to propose smart surfaces, which rendering can be set by software and changed over time. This context legitimates a huge interest in outperforming the existing haptic feedback solutions, leanding to the main goal of HASAMé: to propose new solutions to create Surfaces that integrate a compelling Haptic Feedback.