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Expected contact area between the fingertip and an object as a function of object radius of curvature can be calculated using Equation 1 by Timoshenko and Goodier (1970). The radius of the fingertip is assumed to be 8 mm (Buchholz and Armstrong, 1991). The contact area is normalized to that for a flat object.
