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ForceBoard™ Tactile Tester - Tactile friction & Sense of touch measurements
ForceBoard™ Tactile Tester is the world's only tactile friction tester for true haptic perception measurements. Place an object or surface on ForceBoard™ and swipe your finger over it and objectively measure and record what the surface vs finger interaction feels like via the tactile coefficient of friction! This allows you to optimize the feel of your surface or product and turn subjective touch perception into objective, measurable data!
ForceBoard Tactile Tester even tracks the position and speed of your finger via our unique force point tracking (FPT) technology!
Read our LinkedIn article related to tactile friction:
Sense of touch and tactile friction testing example
ForceBoard Tactile Tester with finger tracking technology powered via USB, connecting directly to your existing Windows PC or laptop
Tactile friction measurement between finger and a rough aluminium surface with position and speed tracking of the finger
Testing tactile friction and tactile perception on a mobile phone with force detection in full 2D and integrated finger position tracking
Synthetic hair mounted in the submersion tray so that it can be tested together with shampoo with our without water
White papers:
2026 Kyriazis, Caykara,Hefft,Martinez & Zhang - Quantifying tactile perception of fabrics using both frictional and acoustic methods
2020 Lisa Skedung, Kathryn L. Harris, Elizabeth S. Collier1, Mark W. Rutland The finishing touches: the role of friction and roughness in haptic perception of surface coatings
2018 Lisa Skedung, Kathryn Harris, Elizabeth S. Collier, Martin Arvidsson, Anelila Waeckerlin, Walter Haag, Marco Bieri, Andriy Romanyuk, Mark W. Rutland, Feeling Smooth: Psychotribological Probing of Molecular Composition
2018 Lisa Skedung, Charles El Rawadi, Martin Arvidsson, Mark Rutland, Céline Farcet, Gustavo Luengo (L'Oréal), Lionel Breton (L'Oréal), Mechanisms of tactile sensory deterioration amongst the elderly2018 Lisa Skedung, Charles El Rawadi, Martin Arvidsson, Mark Rutland, Céline Farcet, Gustavo Luengo (L'Oréal), Lionel Breton (L'Oréal), Mechanisms of tactile sensory deterioration amongst the elderly
2017 Martin Arvidsson, Lovisa Ringstad, Lisa Skedung, Kenneth Duvefelt, Mark Rutland, Feeling fine - the effect of topography and friction on perceived roughness and slipperiness
2016 Kenneth Duvefelt, Adhesion and Friction - a Study on Tactility, ISSN: 1400-1179, Doctoral Thesis, KTH Royal Institute of Technology.
2015 Stéphanie Bernatchez, Stephen Theiss et al. Reducing Friction on Skin at Risk: The Use of 3M™ Cavilon™ No Sting Barrier Film https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4651030/
2012 Lisa Skedung, Tactile Perception - Role of Friction and Texture, ISSN: 1654-1081, Doctoral Thesis, KTH Royal Institute of Technology.
2011 Alejandra León, Matilda Kaba-Liljeberg, Tactility in fabrics of clothing - A tactile study of silk, cotton and wool, Bachelor Thesis, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
2011 Natalia Chuvashova, Development of a hiking aid with focus on the user and tactility, Master Thesis, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Note: Industrial Dynamics Sweden AB has also developed an easy to use method that can be used to measure the exact contact area between your finger and a smooth hard surface.