A study on control of a phantom sensation by visual stimuli

Abstract

In this paper, we present a notable study to control occurrence of a phantom sensation by visual stimuli. A phantom sensation is one of tactile illusion caused by vibration stimuli. Some previous works employed vibration motors for a tactile display, and utilized a phantom sensation to present tactile stimuli in a large area with a few vibration motors. However, there are few studies to investigate the influence of visual stimuli on a phantom sensation. Our previous works showed that visual stimuli influenced localization of vibrotactile perception. From the results, we considered that visual stimuli also influence on a phantom sensation. We made a visual-tactile display, and conducted some experiments. The results showed that visual stimuli influenced a phantom sensation and it seemed to be possible to control the occurrence of a phantom sensation by changing visual stimuli.