Subject: Re: vibration and rainfall From: Jan Schnupp <jan.schnupp(at)PHYSIOL.OX.AC.UK> Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 10:26:57 +0000Dear Matt, on Charles Spence's recommendation I got an Oticon "bone conductor" as vibrotactile device which I used to vibrate finger tips of human volunteers in a psychophysics study on multi-sensory integration. That worked rather well. You can download the paper from www.physiol.ox.ac.uk/~jan/SchnuppDawePollackEBR2005.pdf if you are interested. Jan Matt Marble wrote: > hello all, > > i am curious if anyone knows where i might be able to purchase a > fairly inexpensive vibrotactile transducer with a fairly wide > frequency range? Also, what research is currently being done with this > technology? i know of Chladni's and Jenny's work with visualized > vibratory phenomena and of Bekesy's work with sensory inhibition - but > that's not so recent (though no less significant!). > > Also i am planning a comparative acoustical analysis of rainfall on > land. Is there any other such studies (i know of the work on ocean > rainfall)? Perhaps from the Ecological Psychoacoustics folks? In any > case... Thanks, > > Matt > > ::::::::::::::: :: : : : : : : : : > > matthew eliott marble > 332 SE 11th Ave. > Portland OR 97214 > > hamletist(at)hotmail.com > (503) 984-4713 -- Dr Jan Schnupp University Laboratory of Physiology Parks Road - Oxford OX1 3PT Tel +44-1865-272513 email: jan(at)physiol.ox.ac.uk http://www.physiol.ox.ac.uk/~jan/