2006 International Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems (HAPTICS'06)
Towards Effective Information Display Using Vibrotactile Apparent Motion
Alexandria, Virginia
March 25-March 29
ISBN: 1-4244-0226-3
Luv Kohli, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Haruo Noma, ATR Media Information Science Laboratories
In this paper, we explore the use of tactile apparent motion at different speeds for information display. A prototype vibrotactile tactor array was constructed, consisting of three rings of five voice-coil tactors each, and mounted on the upper arm of test subjects. The results of two experiments are presented: a study on the sensitivity to differences in apparent motion speed, and a study on users? ability to differentiate four motion patterns at three different speeds. Users had little trouble with pattern identification, but found absolute speed recognition difficult. Several ideas for future exploration of tactile apparent motion for general-purpose information displays are presented.
Index Terms:
haptics, vibrotactile, information display, apparent motion
Citation:
Luv Kohli, Masataka Niwa, Haruo Noma, Kenji Susami, Kenichi Hosaka, Yasuyuki Yanagida, Robert W. Lindeman, Yuichiro Kume, "Towards Effective Information Display Using Vibrotactile Apparent Motion," haptics, pp.68, 2006 International Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems (HAPTICS'06), 2006