{"id":32634,"date":"2017-03-04T13:06:47","date_gmt":"2017-03-04T12:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/?p=32634"},"modified":"2017-03-04T13:06:47","modified_gmt":"2017-03-04T12:06:47","slug":"new-technology-can-now-help-give-long-distance-couples-a-sense-of-touch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/new-technology-can-now-help-give-long-distance-couples-a-sense-of-touch\/","title":{"rendered":"NEW TECHNOLOGY CAN NOW HELP GIVE LONG DISTANCE COUPLES A SENSE OF TOUCH"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A SIAT graduate student Azadeh Foirghani demonstrates the Flex N Feel glove.
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Long distance has since been a problem in many relationships, but thanks to technology, that distance could easily be bridged.<\/p>\n

Long-distance couples can share a walk, watch movies together, and even give each other a massage, using new technologies being developed in Carman Neustaedter’s Simon Fraser University lab.<\/p>\n

Researchers have designed a pair of interconnected gloves called Flex-N-Feel. When fingers ‘flex’ in one glove, the actions are transmitted to a remote partner wearing the other. The glove’s tactile sensors allow the wearer to ‘feel’ the movements.<\/p>\n

To capture the flex actions, the sensors are attached to a microcontroller. The sensors provide a value for each bend, and are transmitted to the ‘feel’ glove using a WiFi module.<\/p>\n

It’s all about feeling connected, says Neustaedter, an associate professor in SFU’s School of Interactive Arts and Technology (SIAT).<\/p>\n

“Users can make intimate gestures such as touching the face, holding hands, and giving a hug,” says Neustaedter. “The act of bending or flexing one’s finger is a gentle and subtle way to mimic touch.”<\/p>\n

The gloves are currently a prototype and testing continues. While one set of gloves enables one-way remote touch between partners, Neustaedter says a second set could allow both to share touches at the same time.<\/p>\n

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