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"Seeing is Feeling" is a new haptic display that enables mutual understanding of haptic sensation between the wearer and an observer. In addition to presenting haptic sensations by inducing skin deformation, we have achieved creating a mutual understanding of the sensations with the observer by making the haptic stimulus evident. People have the ability to predict the sensations of others by observing their sensory states. The system is composed of a part that provides haptic stimulus while creating visible skin deformation, and a mechanical structure that visually exaggerates the deformation. The proposed system realizes richer interactions by extending the entertainment experiences of the observers during live content, increase understanding of internal states through biofeedback, and be used in remote haptic communication.

The body surface is an essential interface that dynamically reflects states inside and outside the body. To realize a computer mediated embodied interaction, focusing on its characteristic as a visual display, we propose dynamically intervening in the shape of the body surface. Dynamic Derm is a prototype that dynamically deforms clothes by pushing them up from inside, where and each module can present two degrees of freedom in translation.

Traditional methods for understanding people flow can be divided into measurement-based approaches and simulation-based approaches. Measurement-based approaches have the advantage of directly capturing actual people flow, but they face the challenge of data imperfection. On the other hand, simulations can obtain complete data on a computer, but they only consider some of the factors determining human behavior, leading to a divergence from actual people flow. Both measurement and simulation methods have unresolved issues. We propose a method that applies data assimilation, a fusion technique of measurement and simulation, to agent-based simulation. Data assimilation combines the advantages of both measurement and simulation, contributing to the creation of an environment that can reflect real people flow while acquiring richer data.

Conspicuous variations in both real and imaginary refractive indices over the intense bands are precisely determined as a function of infrared wavenumber by attenuated total reflection infrared absorption measurement. The accurate spectral data offer an excellent reference to calibrate the absolute infrared intensities by various quantum chemical calculations, and thus, critical comparison between the present experiment and computation was reported to clarify the general accuracy of the quantum chemical calculations. The precise data of the dispersion will be utilized to clarify their impact on the analysis of vibrational spectroscopy of interfaces in the subsequent paper.