Tactile Communication: Making Communication Technology Warmer and More Emotional

Abstract

With the development of multimedia technology, people have fully enjoyed the pleasure of audio and video and start to pursue the immersion of multi-sensory interactive experience. Touching is the third interactive media after vision and hearing. We are eager to touch our loved ones remotely, not just through a cold screen to video them, especially during the COVID-19 epidemic. Operating the remote robot, We want to get tactile feedback without time delay as if we were there so as to complete the task better. We hope that the material of the scene can be felt and we can enjoy patting shoulders and clapping hands with each other. Therefore, it is necessary to build a new basic communication in the digital world, enabling low latency end-to-end transmission of tactile information and making our communication interaction warm and emotional. This paper presents an overview of the latest research progress of tactile communication from end-to-end. This paper briefly describes the tactile communication system, studies the current status of acquisition, display, compression and transmission of tactile data, analyzes application scenarios of tactile communication. Finally, the paper provides a conclusion and prospects the next research directions. It is hoped that this review can provide some insights into future research on tactile communication.