A Brief Review on Recent Advances in Haptic Technology for Human-Computer Interaction: Force, Tactile, and Surface Haptic Feedback

Haptic technology relates to the user’s sense of touch, allowing them to feel, manipulate, and shape virtual or physical remote objects through a device, making the experience feel life-like. With the advancements in modern computers, haptics has successfully integrated into the human-computer interaction (HCI) family, enhancing the interaction experience by incorporating all three senses: hearing, sight, and touch. Therefore, researchers and companies have adopted this concept and started developing devices featuring various haptic technologies, each unique in its functions in force, tactile, or surface haptic feedback categories. This review study provides a brief overview of the recent development of haptic technology in relation to HCI along its working process. The focus will be on haptic devices created in the last decade for three different types of feedback: force, tactile, and surface haptic.