Hi Marina,

there is a book edited by Schiff & Foulke "Tactile Perception. A Sourcebook", 1982, ISBN 0 521 24095 6. While the main topic is the tactile (and haptic) transmission of information to blind people, I feel chapter 1 on David Katz' world of touch, and chapter 6 on Dynamic tactile displays might be of interest to you. Some references in chapter 6 point to articles in "Perception & Psychophysics":

https://link.springer.com/journal/volumesAndIssues/13414

e. g. an article by Gilson in 1969:

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.3758%2FBF03209553.pdf

Searching for "vibrotactile" in Perception & Psychophysics yields some articles whose topics seem to answer your question, at least partially.

According to Gescheider et al., 1971:

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.3758%2FBF03210324.pdf

"... it became apparent that experimentally determined values of the threshold were inexorably confounded with such nonsensory factors as stimulus expectation, motivation, and payoff contingencies." Nevertheless, later on in this article, you will find some "hard numbers" and graphs.

Because Gescheider's experiments were performed at 60 Hz, and the maximum sensitivity seems to be located between 200 Hz and 300 Hz, one can expect to find even lower thresholds at these higher frequencies.

I hope this helps.

PS. Another promising article included in the references to chapter 6 (RG insists on using its own link but you can find it as well by searching for "cutaneous threshold vibration" in the title, and "verrillo" as author via Google Scholar):

Article Investigation of Some Parameters of the Cutaneous Treshold f...

PPS. Obviously, much research on tactile perception was done in the late 60s and early 70s, and those findings are still valid today, of course. But, wondering if some of the old experts are still around today, I just discovered that Gescheider is on RG:

George A Gescheider

and I found a relatively new book: Gescheider, Wright, Verrillo: "Information-Processing Channels in the Tactile Sensory System: A Psychophysical and Physiological Analysis", 2008, ISBN 1841698962 resp. 9781841698960.

Joerg Fricke Thanks so much! This is great!

Dear Marina,

You may find the following links useful

https://www.iso.org/committee/51514/x/catalogue/

https://www.iso.org/ics/13.160/x/

http://www.windturbinesyndrome.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/human-body-vibration-exposure-and-its-measurement.pdf

https://www.sae.org/publications/technical-papers/content/750166/

http://www.sandv.com/downloads/0709unga.pdf

https://www.epa.nsw.gov.au/~/media/EPA/Corporate%20Site/resources/noise/vibrationguide0643.ashx

http://www.rwdimedia.com/uploads/1/1/2/7/11270509/technote_14_vibration.pdf

Dear Marina:

The references provided by other repondents above are quite good. Another very good source concerning human response to vibrations is the handbook written by Prof. Griffin, Handbook of Human Vibration.

Best regards,

Jorge.

It depends on whether the person is standing or reclining. The reclining body is much more sensitive to vibration. This is thought to be an evolutionary trait dating from the time we lived in caves. A sleeping human is potentially vulnerable to predators so the heightened sensitivity is an life saving asset in such situations.

You guys are awesome!! Thx so much!

I am doing my Thesis on vibration-stimuli on cellphone or other mobil devices. Therefore i am very much interested in high-frequent vibration. The whole-body vibration is a very wide field and isn't that relevant for my particular research-question. Even though i love to know as much as possible about this topic :)