Sensory Weaver Builds

This is a list of resources to external builds of hardware that can do sensory weaving. Be it studies from acedemia, companies, or makers/DIY hackers. An attempt to catalog, for future reference in design and iterations for others looking to explore the space of possibilities.


Professional

People, teams who actually know what they are doing and have hard studies, science to back it up.

The Voice

The vOICe a visual->auditory experience. See the world of edges, lights, textures and more over tones and pitch shifts. A symphony of visual information.

Seeing With The Hands

Seeing With The Hands Turns depth sensor data into electro-tactile display feedback. Scan around enviroments, feeling an outline of the world around.

Haptic Patches

Haptic Tactile Patches A trypophobia inducing haptic patch able to transmit not just vibration, but pinch, twist and more.

Neosensory

Neosensory (rip). Used to be a product sold to enable auditory->haptic sensory substitution. Bought out, along with 70+ things in the works. May see these arise from others someday.

Unfolding Space Glove

Unfolding Space Glove A glove-based sensory substitution device, giving depth information to haptic feedback.

FeelSpace Haptic Belt

Feelspace Belt A haptic compass, but as a product.

Haplets

Haplets: Finger-Worn Haptics finger based haptic feedback - mostly for VR, but also would work for sensory weaving.

Haptic Primary Colors

Haptic Primary Colors Enables a sense of colours to those even without sight.

TactorBots

TactorBots Modular mutli-haptic style system for exploring interfaces. Not quite for sensory weaving, but also again should work well enough depending on needs.

ThermalSense

ThermalSense Thermal->Auditory sensory augmentation device.

Seeing-Eye Shoes

Seeing-Eye Shoes Put distance sensors combined with ultrasonics fed to haptic feedback into a shoe? Why not!

Music Jacket

Music Jacket learn to play a violin via haptic feedback


Hackers/DIY

A bit more loose and exploratory, but that shouldn’t detract from the capabilities afforded, or perspectives found.

Lockpick mk2

Lockpick mk2 By Curiosiate, this wristband device turns modular sensor data into haptic feedback.

Visual Impairment Aid

Visual Impairment Aid turn ultrasonic distance into tactile vibrations.

Lodestone biomagnet tools

Lodestone biomagnet tools Open source biogmanet stimulation

Pigeon Belt

Pigeon Belt a haptic compass belt project

SomaOS

more resources when available - found in a biohacker’s discord group. Glove, hand/finger based.

NorthPaw

NorthPaw more compass related haptics - this time in an ankle bracelet.

BottleNose

BottleNose An ultrasonic distance sensor to haptic feedback device. Oldschool cool.

A Haptic Timekeeping Device

Timeekping Device Turn time into vibrations, gain heightened intuitive sense of chronology?

Haptic Compass Belt

Haptic Compass Belt get a sense of north via a belt, in a different style than the pigeon belt - more outputs for feedback.

Haptic baby monitor

Haptic Baby Monitor Turn the sounds of a baby monitor directly into vibrations, so that deaf or hard of hearing carers can hear the younglings.

Pathfinder

Pathfinder Ultrasonic distance sensor to haptic feedback for the blind.

Depth Perception Goggles

V1 v2 turn depth arrays into haptic feedback on the forehead.


Resources

These don’t quite fit under builds, but are still useful if working towards building a sensory weaver as a basic resource. (there is a lot in other areas of study that also play in, but that is for later)


Designing sensory-substitution devices: Principles, pitfalls and potential

Using space and time to encode vibrotactile information: toward an estimate of the skin’s achievable throughput

A Survey of Transport Protocols for Haptic Applications

Tactile Sensitivity to the Frequency Spectrum of Complex Vibrotactile Signals

Multisensory inclusive design with sensory substitution


Integration Resources

These aren’t directly on a build, but more onto the usage of the devices. This may get split off into its own page eventually.


Learning New Sensorimotor Contingencies: Effects of Long-Term Use of Sensory Augmentation on the Brain and Conscious Perception

What can body ownership illusions tell us about minimal phenomenal selfhood?

Technological Approach to Mind Everywhere: An Experimentally-Grounded Framework for Understanding Diverse Bodies and Minds

Superhuman Enhancements via Implants: Beyond the Human Mind

Augmenting perception: How artificial intelligence transforms sensory substitution Oliver Schneider’s site

Revisiting Wittgenstein’s puzzle: hierarchical encoding and comparison facilitate learning of probabilistic relational categories

In conclusion, the findings reported here—specifically, the finding that comparisons that systematically reveal relations that remain invariant over sub-classes of otherwise probabilistic relational categories—add to the growing body of evidence that learning relational categories depends on, or is at least greatly facilitated by, conditions that lead the learner to discover relational invariants that predict category membership.