What the electrotactile literature reports, and what it leaves out

A curated corpus of electrotactile, electrocutaneous and stimulator-hardware papers, each classified by what it contributes and by what stimulation parameters a paper of that kind owes its readers. Doses are recomputed on a common basis so configurations can be compared across studies.

Dose landscape

Charge per phase against charge density per phase, one point per delivered configuration. Electrode area is the free variable: points move along the diagonal as area changes.

Shaded bands: I <10, II 10–100, III >100 µC cm⁻². The dashed line is the Shannon (1992) k = 1.5 curve, derived for implanted electrodes and drawn as an external reference, not a skin limit. Values at the upper end of each paper's delivered range. Where a paper reports only ranges (Duente 2023), it is plotted at both its median-charge and its upper-end configuration, derived from the paper's own amplitude regression; the tooltip names each configuration.

Reporting completeness

Share of records reporting each parameter, scored only against what that kind of paper owes (its obligation tier).

Where this literature is published

Top three journals and conferences by number of papers in the corpus. Ties share a rank, so a list can run past three.

Corpus by contribution and obligation

Papers by primary contribution class (rows) and dose-reporting tier (columns).

Library

Reporting checker

Check whether a manuscript reports the stimulation parameters a paper of its kind is expected to state, before you submit it.

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Method

Two classifications per paper

A reference collection assembled for relevance is not parametrically comparable: a microneurography study, an impedance model and a stimulator datasheet all omit an electrode area for unrelated reasons. Every paper is therefore classified twice: by its contribution (what it studies) and by its dose-reporting obligation (what a paper of that kind owes a reader).

Tier	Obligation	Fields expected

Derived dose

Charge per phase Q = I × pulse width; charge density D = Q / A, with A the area of one active electrode (never an array footprint). Areas given only as a diameter assume a circular contact and are flagged. Values are taken as reported, converted to mA, µs, Hz and mm², and never inferred from field knowledge. Device ratings (compliance voltage, maximum output) are kept apart from doses delivered to participants, and frequencies are labelled by kind: pulse repetition rate, carrier, or instrument bandwidth.

Each value is drafted by a language model from the paper's text and approved by a person before it enters the dataset.

Data and reuse

The dataset holds bibliographic metadata and extracted parameters only; follow each DOI for the paper itself. papers.csv · records.csv

Dataset licensed CC BY 4.0; please cite: Ramirez-Duque, A. (2026). Electrotactile literature synthesis [Data set]. github.com/andres-ramirez-duque/electrotactile_lit_syn. Code: MIT.