Personal devices feed our sight and hearing virtually unlimited streams of information while leaving our sense of touch mostly … untouched. A wearable, textile-based device developed by Rice University engineers could help declutter, enhance - and, in the case of impairments - compensate for deficiencies in visual and auditory inputs by tapping this underused sensory resource. "Technology has been slow to co-opt haptics or communication based on the sense of touch," said Barclay Jumet , a mechanical engineering PhD student who is the lead author on a study published in Device .

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