Elitac WearablesElitac Wearables
  • Services
    • What we do
      • Integration techniques
      • Haptic feedback wearables
      • Wearable sensors
    • Wearables workshop
    • Hardware & Software development for wearables
    • Wearables Lab
    • All services
      • How we work
        • Development process
      • Building blocks
      • Working practices
  • Projects
    • All projects
      • Health and medical wearables
      • Safety wearables
    • BalanceBelt
    • SmartShoulder
    • NeuroShirt
    • Emotion Whisperer Sleeve
    • Mission Navigation Belt
    • Research: GaitKeeper
    • Research: WEAFING
    • Cycling Shirt
    • SmartShirt
    • FysioPal
    • Sentaz Tactile Navigation
  • Products
    • ScienceSuit
    • BalanceBelt
    • Mission Navigation Belt
  • Resources
    • Blog
    • Webinars
      • Electrodes for Wearables
      • Electronics x Textiles
      • Haptic technology for medical wearables
    • Case studies
      • Developing a haptic sleeve for the Emotion Whisperer
      • Developing a smart safety vest with continuous end user involvement
    • Wearables jargon buster
  • About
    • About us
    • Team
    • Vision
    • Press
    • Career
    • Partners & Clients
  • Contact
  • Services
    • What we do
      • Integration techniques
      • Haptic feedback wearables
      • Wearable sensors
    • Wearables workshop
    • Hardware & Software development for wearables
    • Wearables Lab
    • All services
      • How we work
        • Development process
      • Building blocks
      • Working practices
  • Projects
    • All projects
      • Health and medical wearables
      • Safety wearables
    • BalanceBelt
    • SmartShoulder
    • NeuroShirt
    • Emotion Whisperer Sleeve
    • Mission Navigation Belt
    • Research: GaitKeeper
    • Research: WEAFING
    • Cycling Shirt
    • SmartShirt
    • FysioPal
    • Sentaz Tactile Navigation
  • Products
    • ScienceSuit
    • BalanceBelt
    • Mission Navigation Belt
  • Resources
    • Blog
    • Webinars
      • Electrodes for Wearables
      • Electronics x Textiles
      • Haptic technology for medical wearables
    • Case studies
      • Developing a haptic sleeve for the Emotion Whisperer
      • Developing a smart safety vest with continuous end user involvement
    • Wearables jargon buster
  • About
    • About us
    • Team
    • Vision
    • Press
    • Career
    • Partners & Clients
  • Contact
Press enter to begin your search
Get inspired: Our customers share how they use the ScienceSuit’s<br />haptic feedback

Get inspired: Our customers share how they use the ScienceSuit’s
haptic feedback

By Dani van Weert July 16, 2021 September 30th, 2021 Developing wearables, Haptic feedback, ScienceSuit
No Comments
Share this article:

The Elitac Wearables ScienceSuit is a set of hardware, software & textile components that lets researchers and product developers test haptic feedback applications quickly and cost-efficiently. It has been used for a wide range of applications since its introduction.

Of course, we’ve long been convinced of the benefits of haptic feedback, ranging from sensory replacement and reducing sensory overload to the intuitive communication of a variety of information.

We recently caught up with some of our ScienceSuit users and were truly inspired to learn about all the valuable applications they have found for haptic feedback. Therefore, a big shout out to some of our customers:

  • Sint Maartenskliniek
  • Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg
  • Donders Institute
  • Saxion University

We recently caught up with the users of our #ScienceSuit haptic feedback R&D hardware and were truly inspired to learn about all the valuable uses they have found for it. Therefore, a big shout out to a few of our amazing customers!

At the Sint Maartenskliniek, they’re researching wearable #exoskeletons that can augment or restore human motor functions. They’re using the ScienceSuit to test the added value of haptic feedback for exoskeleton users with spinal cord injuries. In this set-up, pressure sensors in the users’ shoes interact with the ScienceSuit, which then informs the user about how her/his body is moving through vibrations on the chest.

Read more about this inspiring project here: https://www.wearablerobotics.nl.

With the help of the ScienceSuit, the EXIST Research Transfer Project Surgical Audio Guidance (SURAG) at the Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg is looking to solve one of the drawbacks of laparoscopic surgery.

In contrast to traditional open surgery, the procedure is conducted using long instruments that are inserted through tiny keyholes into the patients’ body. Due to this, the surgeons‘ haptic information is reduced by 30-100% compared to open surgery. This can limit the identification of anatomic structures, cause longer procedure times, and increases the patients’ risk of injury.

However, the SURAG-team is researching and developing a clever solution to this problem with the “Surgical Audio Guidance”-project: Using audio sensors and advanced signal processing in combination with real-time (haptic) feedback to provide surgeons with supplementary sensory information relevant for placement and navigation of the medical instruments. In practice, each type of tissue surface should give a different sound to the surgeons, which would help them to orientate inside the patients’ body.

Read more about this innovative project here: www.surag-medical.de.

Researchers at the University of Twente and the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour used the ScienceSuit to examine the possibility of communicating facial expressions to visually impaired people via haptic feedback.

A wearable webcam classified facial expressions into one of the six basic emotions (anger, disgust, joy, fear, surprise, sadness). These were then conveyed to the ScienceSuit, which communicated the emotions to the user through vibrations around the waist.

Researchers from the Ambient Intelligence Research Group at the Saxion University of Applied Sciences developed a soft exoskeleton in the XoSoft project to assist people with mobility impairments, and used the ScienceSuit to provide haptic balance feedback to the exoskeleton users.

Read more about this inspiring project here: https://www.xosoft.eu.

Share this article:

You May Also Like

Developing wearables

Electrodes: What are they and what are they used for?

Laura Perez
Laura PerezFebruary 7, 2023
Haptic feedbackMedical wearables

Project Kick-Off – KneeWear: Improving knee-osteo-arthritis

Guus de Hoog
Guus de HoogApril 22, 2022
BalanceBeltDeveloping wearablesMedical wearablesNews

Please Vote For The BalanceBelt!

Guus de Hoog
Guus de HoogMarch 8, 2022

© 2022 Elitac Wearables

Elitac Wearables
+31 (0)30 20 72 323 info@elitacwearables.com Nijverheidsweg 16B
3534 AM Utrecht, the Netherlands

This website uses cookies to optimise your experience. Feel free to opt out. Cookie settingsACCEPT ALL COOKIES
Privacy & Cookies Policy

Privacy Overview

This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Out of these cookies, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. But opting out of some of these cookies may have an effect on your browsing experience.
Necessary
Always Enabled
Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. These cookies do not store any personal information.
Non-necessary
Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website.
SAVE & ACCEPT