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Somatosensory vs Haptics - What's the difference?

somatosensory | haptics |

As an adjective somatosensory

is (biology) of or pertaining to the perception of sensory stimuli produced by the skin or internal organs.

As a noun haptics is

(medicine) the study of the sense of touch.

somatosensory

English

Adjective

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  • (biology) Of or pertaining to the perception of sensory stimuli produced by the skin or internal organs

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    *somatosense

    haptics

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    Noun

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  • (medicine) The study of the sense of touch.
  • (computing) The study of user interfaces that use the sense of touch.
  • * 2003 , Julie A. Jacko, Andrew Sears (editors), The Human-Computer Interaction Handbook: Fundamentals, Evolving Technologies and Emerging Applications , page 218,
    • Future work of this research field will include two issues: the safety and psychology of haptics .
  • * 2008', Manuel Ferre (editor), '''''Haptics : Perception, Devices and Scenarios: 6th International Conference: EuroHaptics, Madrid, Spain, June 2008: Proceedings ], [[w:Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNCS] 5024.
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    * haptic

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