Assessing the Efficacy of Variable Compliance Tactile Displays

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Second Joint EuroHaptics Conference and Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems (WHC'07)

Tsukuba, Japan

March 22-March 24

ISBN: 0-7695-2738-8

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	Michael A. Taylor, Aaron R. Ferber, J. Edward Colgate, "Assessing the Efficacy of Variable Compliance Tactile Displays," World Haptics Conference, pp. 427-432, Second Joint EuroHaptics Conference and Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems (WHC'07), 2007.

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	@article{ 10.1109/WHC.2007.23, author = {Michael A. Taylor and Aaron R. Ferber and J. Edward Colgate}, title = {Assessing the Efficacy of Variable Compliance Tactile Displays}, journal ={World Haptics Conference}, volume = {0}, year = {2007}, isbn = {0-7695-2738-8}, pages = {427-432}, doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/WHC.2007.23}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA}, }

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	TY - CONF JO - World Haptics Conference TI - Assessing the Efficacy of Variable Compliance Tactile Displays SN - 0-7695-2738-8 SP427 EP432 A1 - Michael A. Taylor, A1 - Aaron R. Ferber, A1 - J. Edward Colgate, PY - 2007 KW - null VL - 0 JA - World Haptics Conference ER -

Michael A. Taylor, Northwestern University, USA

Aaron R. Ferber, Northwestern University, USA

J. Edward Colgate, Northwestern University, USA

DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/WHC.2007.23

Tactile displays based on pin arrays are challenging to design because they require a large number of individually controllable pins, or "tactors". A semiactive approach such as variable compliance could lead to improvements in tactor density, power consumption, size, and weight. However, the effectiveness of such an approach at conveying information to the user has not previously been studied. This paper presents an experiment that compares the performance of height varying and compliance varying pin arrays. It was found that users of a variable compliance pin array took at least 1.41 times longer to determine the shape of a displayed object than when using a variable height pin array, and this decision time increases with tactor stiffness.

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Michael A. Taylor, Aaron R. Ferber, J. Edward Colgate, "Assessing the Efficacy of Variable Compliance Tactile Displays," whc, pp.427-432, Second Joint EuroHaptics Conference and Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems (WHC'07), 2007

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