ReviewJournal of the Royal Society, Interface2013
Finger pad friction and its role in grip and touch.
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- Fingerpad contact evolution under electrovibration.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2019Trial
- Dynamics of fingertip contact during the onset of tangential slip.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2014Trial
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- Transforming static interfaces into tactile channels with steerable transdermal foci.Science advances · 2026Article
- Frictional instabilities as an alternative to friction coefficient in fine touch perception.eLife · 2026Article
- A review on finite element modelling of finger and hand mechanical behaviour in haptic interactions.Biomechanics and modeling in mechanobiology · 2025Review
- Synthetic Tactile Sensor for Macroscopic Roughness Estimation Based on Spatial-Coding Contact Processing.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- An innovative wearable device for sensing mechanoreceptor activation during touch.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Visual cues of soft-tissue behaviour in minimal-invasive and robotic surgery.Journal of robotic surgery · 2024Review
- Friction between human skin and incontinence pads in the presence of barrier protection products.Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Part H, Journal of engineering in medicine · 2024Article
- Fast grip force adaptation to friction relies on localized fingerpad strains.Science advances · 2024Article
- How Tactile Afferents in the Human Fingerpad Encode Tangential Torques Associated with Manipulation: Are Monkeys Better than Us?The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023Article
- The human touch: A connected neuro-cellular skin-brain network.Skin research and technology : official journal of International Society for Bioengineering and the Skin (ISBS) [and] International Society for Digital Imaging of Skin (ISDIS) [and] International Society for Skin Imaging (ISSI) · 2023Article
- Manipulation Tasks in Hazardous Environments Using a Teleoperated Robot: A Case Study at CERN.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Efficient tactile encoding of object slippage.Scientific reports · 2022Article
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- Normal and tangential forces combine to convey contact pressure during dynamic tactile stimulation.Scientific reports · 2022Article
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- The role of friction on skin wetness perception during dynamic interactions between the human index finger pad and materials of varying moisture content.Journal of neurophysiology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Many aspects of both grip function and tactile perception depend on complex frictional interactions occurring in the contact zone of the finger pad, which is the subject of the current review. While it is well established that friction plays a crucial role in grip function, its exact contribution for discriminatory touch involving the sliding of a finger pad is more elusive. For texture discrimination, it is clear that vibrotaction plays an important role in the discriminatory mechanisms. Among other factors, friction impacts the nature of the vibrations generated by the relative movement of the fingertip skin against a probed object. Friction also has a major influence on the perceived tactile pleasantness of a surface. The contact mechanics of a finger pad is governed by the fingerprint ridges and the sweat that is exuded from pores located on these ridges. Counterintuitively, the coefficient of friction can increase by an order of magnitude in a period of tens of seconds when in contact with an impermeably smooth surface, such as glass. In contrast, the value will decrease for a porous surface, such as paper. The increase in friction is attributed to an occlusion mechanism and can be described by first-order kinetics. Surprisingly, the sensitivity of the coefficient of friction to the normal load and sliding velocity is comparatively of second order, yet these dependencies provide the main basis of theoretical models which, to-date, largely ignore the time evolution of the frictional dynamics. One well-known effect on taction is the possibility of inducing stick-slip if the friction decreases with increasing sliding velocity. Moreover, the initial slip of a finger pad occurs by the propagation of an annulus of failure from the perimeter of the contact zone and this phenomenon could be important in tactile perception and grip function.
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