Wearable cutaneous device for applying position/location haptic feedback in navigation applications

We present a wearable cutaneous device capable of applying lateral stretch and position/location haptic feedback to the user's skin. It is composed of a 2D Cartesian-like structure able to move a pin on the plane parallel to the skin. The pin houses a small metallic sphere of 8 mm of diameter. The sphere can be either left free to rotate when the pin moves, providing location feedback about its ab...