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Papers

(The TQCC of IEEE Transactions on Haptics is 5. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
A Review of Surface Haptics: Enabling Tactile Effects on Touch Surfaces	110
A Survey of Mid-Air Ultrasound Haptics and Its Applications	91
Haptic and Visual Feedback Assistance for Dual-Arm Robot Teleoperation in Surface Conditioning Tasks	35
Mid-Air Haptic Rendering of 2D Geometric Shapes With a Dynamic Tactile Pointer	35
Acquisition of 500 English Words through a TActile Phonemic Sleeve (TAPS)	35
Integrating Wearable Haptics and Obstacle Avoidance for the Visually Impaired in Indoor Navigation: A User-Centered Approach	35
Haptic Training: Which Types Facilitate (re)Learning of Which Motor Task and for Whom? Answers by a Review	33
Soft Exoskeleton Glove with Human Anatomical Architecture: Production of Dexterous Finger Movements and Skillful Piano Performance	33
Survey of Pseudo-Haptics: Haptic Feedback Design and Application Proposals	31
AUTD3: Scalable Airborne Ultrasound Tactile Display	30
“Haptics On-Demand”: A Survey on Encountered-Type Haptic Displays	26
Magnetorheological Fluid Haptic Shoes for Walking in VR	25
Tactile Roughness Perception of Virtual Gratings by Electrovibration	24
Syntacts: Open-Source Software and Hardware for Audio-Controlled Haptics	23
How Do Novice Hapticians Design? A Case Study in Creating Haptic Learning Environments	23
A Multisensory Approach to Present Phonemes as Language Through a Wearable Haptic Device	22
Electrotactile Feedback Applications for Hand and Arm Interactions: A Systematic Review, Meta-Analysis, and Future Directions	19
Adaptive Human Force Scaling via Admittance Control for Physical Human-Robot Interaction	19
Task and Material Properties Interactively Affect Softness Explorations Along Different Dimensions	19
Spatiotemporal Pinpoint Cooling Sensation Produced by Ultrasound-Driven Mist Vaporization on Skin	16
A Survey on Tactile Displays For Visually Impaired People	16
Electrowetting: A Consideration in Electroadhesion	16
Multitouch Vibrotactile Feedback on a Tactile Screen by the Inverse Filter Technique: Vibration Amplitude and Spatial Resolution	16
Closed-loop Control using Electrotactile Feedback Encoded in Frequency and Pulse Width	15
Inherent Haptic Feedback From Supernumerary Robotic Limbs	15

Towards Haptic Images: A Survey on Touchscreen-Based Surface Haptics	15
Modeling Sliding Friction Between Human Finger and Touchscreen Under Electroadhesion	14
Perceptual Quality Assessment of Compressed Vibrotactile Signals Through Comparative Judgment	14
Human-Inspired Haptic Perception and Control in Robot-Assisted Milling Surgery	13
Haptigami: A Fingertip Haptic Interface With Vibrotactile and 3-DoF Cutaneous Force Feedback	13
From Initial Encounter With Mid-Air Haptic Feedback to Repeated Use: The Role of the Novelty Effect in User Experience	12
A Directional Vibrotactile Feedback Interface for Ergonomic Postural Adjustment	11
Generation of Tactile Data From 3D Vision and Target Robotic Grasps	11
Building a Navigable Fine Texture Design Space	11
The Interaction Between Feedback Type and Learning in Routine Grasping With Myoelectric Prostheses	11
Confinement of Vibrotactile Stimuli in Narrow Plates: Principle and Effect of Finger Loading	11
Data-Driven Sparse Skin Stimulation Can Convey Social Touch Information to Humans	11
Estimation of Torso Vibrotactile Thresholds Using Eccentric Rotating Mass Motors	11
Estimating Friction Modulation From the Ultrasonic Mechanical Impedance	10
Electrotactile Perception Properties and Its Applications: A Review	10
Visually Guided Acquisition of Contact Dynamics and Case Study in Data-Driven Haptic Texture Modeling	10
Tri-Modal Tactile Display and Its Application Into Tactile Perception of Visualized Surfaces	10
Radiation Pressure Field Reconstruction for Ultrasound Midair Haptics by Greedy Algorithm With Brute-Force Search	10
Study on Intention Recognition and Sensory Feedback: Control of Robotic Prosthetic Hand Through EMG Classification and Proprioceptive Feedback Using Rule-based Haptic Device	9
Short Time Delay Does Not Hinder Haptic Communication Benefits	9
Virtual Haptic Perception as an Educational Assistive Technology: A Case Study in Inclusive Education	9
Material Recognition via Heat Transfer Given Ambiguous Initial Conditions	9
“I Can Feel It Coming in the Hairs Tonight”: Characterising Mid-Air Haptics on the Hairy Parts of the Skin	9
Using a Variable-Friction Robot Hand to Determine Proprioceptive Features for Object Classification During Within-Hand-Manipulation	8
Haptic Guidance to Support Handwriting for Children With Cognitive and Fine Motor Delays	8
How to Measure the Area of Real Contact of Skin on Glass	8
Wearable Haptics for Remote Social Walking	8
Non-Vibratory Pressure Sensation Produced by Ultrasound Focus Moving Laterally and Repetitively With Fine Spatial Step Width	8
Effect of Temperature on the Absolute and Discrimination Thresholds of Voltage on Electrovibration Tactile Display	8
Visual Feedback Weakens the Augmentation of Perceived Stiffness by Artificial Skin Stretch	8
Mid-Air Tactile Feedback Co-Located With Virtual Touchscreen Improves Dual-Task Performance	8
In-Device Feedback in Immersive Head-Mounted Displays for Distance Perception During Teleoperation of Unmanned Ground Vehicles	7
Dynamic Reconfiguration of Redundant Haptic Interfaces for Rendering Soft and Hard Contacts	7
Data-Driven Haptic Texture Modeling and Rendering Based on Deep Spatio-Temporal Networks	7
A Novel Haptic Feature Set for the Classification of Interactive Motor Behaviors in Collaborative Object Transfer	7
Body-Mounted Vibrotactile Stimuli: Simultaneous Display of Taps on the Fingertips and Forearm	7
Design of Personalized Wearable Haptic Interfaces to Account for Fingertip Size and shape	7
Preference-Driven Texture Modeling Through Interactive Generation and Search	7
Effect of Tactile Masking on Multi-Sensory Haptic Perception	7
Refreshable Braille Display With Adjustable Cell Size for Learners With Different Tactile Sensitivity	7
Wearable Haptic Device Presenting Sensations of Fingertips to the Forearm	7
An Online Survey on the Perception of Mediated Social Touch Interaction and Device Design	6
The Effect of Kinesthetic and Artificial Tactile Noise and Variability on Stiffness Perception	6
Vibrotactile Feedback Rendering of Patterned Textures Using a Waveform Segment Table Method	6
Data-Driven Playback of Natural Tactile Texture Via Broadband Friction Modulation	6
Design and Control of a 3 Degree-of-Freedom Parallel Passive Haptic Device	6
Interactive Vibrotactile Feedback Enhances the Perceived Quality of a Surface for Musical Expression and the Playing Experience	6
Speaking Haptically: From Phonemes to Phrases With a Mobile Haptic Communication System	6
Grip Force is Adjusted at a Level That Maintains an Upper Bound on Partial Slip Across Friction Conditions During Object Manipulation	6
Flexible Assimilation of Human's Target for Versatile Human-Robot Physical Interaction	6

Electrotactile and Vibrotactile Feedback Enable Similar Performance in Psychometric Tests and Closed-Loop Control	6
Tactile Echoes: Multisensory Augmented Reality for the Hand	6
The Effect of Variability in Stiffness on Perception and Grip Force Adjustment	5
Effects of Peripheral Haptic Feedback on Intracortical Brain-Computer Interface Control and Associated Sensory Responses in Motor Cortex	5
Synthesizing the Roughness of Textured Surfaces for an Encountered-Type Haptic Display Using Spatiotemporal Encoding	5
Augmenting Virtual Reality Terrain Display with Smart Shoe Physical Rendering: A Pilot Study	5
Rendering Spatiotemporal Haptic Effects Via the Physics of Waves in the Skin	5
Learning Haptic-Based Object Pose Estimation for In-Hand Manipulation Control With Underactuated Robotic Hands	5
Detection of Friction-Modulated Textures is Limited by Vibrotactile Sensitivity	5
Passivity of Series Elastic Actuation Under Model Reference Force Control During Null Impedance Rendering	5
Getting Insights From Twitter: What People Want to Touch in Daily Life	5
Mapping the Sensory-Perceptual Space of Vibration for User-Centered Intuitive Tactile Design	5
Numerosity Identification Used to Assess Tactile Stimulation Methods for Communication	5
Learning to Feel Textures: Predicting Perceptual Similarities From Unconstrained Finger-Surface Interactions	5
A Novel Refreshable Braille Display Based on the Layered Electromagnetic Driving Mechanism of Braille Dots	5
The Impact of Size and Position of Reference Electrode on the Localization of Biphasic Electrotactile Stimulation on the Fingertips	5
Evaluating the Effect of Stimulus Duration on Vibrotactile Cue Localizability With a Tactile Sleeve	5
Design and Characterization of an Actuated Drill Mockup for Orthopedic Surgical Training	5
Where's My Button? Evaluating the User Experience of Surface Haptics in Featureless Automotive User Interfaces	5
Survey on Hand-Based Haptic Interaction for Virtual Reality	5
Improving Tactile Codes for Increased Speech Communication Rates in a Phonemic-Based Tactile Display	5
Static Weight Perception Through Skin Stretch and Kinesthetic Information: Detection Thresholds, JNDs, and PSEs	5
Effects of Vibration Direction and Pressing Force on Finger Vibrotactile Perception and Force Control	5
The Effect of Temperature on Tactile Softness Perception	5
A Novel Energy Compensation Scheme for Quality Enhancement in Time-Delayed Teleoperation With Multi-DoF Haptic Data Reduction and Communication	5
Hands-Free Devices for Displaying Speech and Language in the Tactile Modality — Methods and Approaches	5