Designing wearable vibrotactile notifications for information communication

Wang, Yulin; Millet, Barbara; Smith, James L.

doi:10.1016/j.ijhcs.2016.01.004

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“…the creation and its success in communicating emotions [8,10,11,21,23,44]. The sender device is an object shaped like a human shoulder to provide the massager with a feeling of similar grip.…”

Section: Kissmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In real-life massage, these are considered as almost fixed values, since it depends only on the characteristic of the hands of the massage giver. Here, we simulated physical displacement of the skin using vibrotactile feedback, similar to many studies that successfully use vibrotactile arrays to represent touch, e.g., [8,10,11,21,23,44]. We acknowledged that the force feedback is not successfully conveyed by our device, but our objective is not to make real-life massage possible in distance, but rather to complement video call with haptic feedback and interaction that are inspired by massage.…”

Section: Design Implicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Design of a Massage-Inspired Haptic Device for Interpersonal Connection in Long-Distance Communication

Haritaipan

Masahiro

Mougenot

2018

Advances in Human-Computer Interaction

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The use of tactile senses in mediated communication has generated considerable research interest in past decades. Since massage is a common practice in Asian cultures, we propose to introduce massage-based interactions in mediated communication between people in a close relationship. We designed a device for distant interactive massage to be used during online conversation and we assessed its effect on interpersonal connection with eight pairs of Chinese participants in romantic relationships. All pairs were asked to engage in a conversation, either through a video call or through a massage-assisted video call. The findings showed that the use of the massage device significantly increased the perceived emotional and physical connection between the users. The results also showed a significant increase in the engagement in the massage activity, e.g., total massage time and average force per finger, from positive conversation to negative conversation, demonstrating an evidence of the interplay between audio-visual and haptic communication. Post hoc interviews showed the potential of the massage device for long-distance communication in romantic relationships as well as in parents-children relationships.

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Section: Kissmentioning

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Section: Design Implicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Design of a Massage-Inspired Haptic Device for Interpersonal Connection in Long-Distance Communication

Haritaipan

Masahiro

Mougenot

2018

Advances in Human-Computer Interaction

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“…Although there are different mechanoreceptors, tactile reception results from a combination of all the receptors in a particular skin area. The threshold of tactile perception depends on several factors like location, contact area, type of stimulus, duration, age and even hormone levels [ 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 ]. In [ 12 ], it was observed that the most significant age difference in vibrotactile detection threshold was found in the glabrous finger with the difference being less pronounced at lower frequencies (5–10 Hz) and more pronounced as the frequency increases to 300 Hz.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Tacsac: A Wearable Haptic Device with Capacitive Touch-Sensing Capability for Tactile Display

Ozioko

Navaraj

Hersh

et al. 2020

Sensors

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This paper presents a dual-function wearable device (Tacsac) with capacitive tactile sensing and integrated tactile feedback capability to enable communication among deafblind people. Tacsac has a skin contactor which enhances localized vibrotactile stimulation of the skin as a means of feedback to the user. It comprises two main modules—the touch-sensing module and the vibrotactile module; both stacked and integrated as a single device. The vibrotactile module is an electromagnetic actuator that employs a flexible coil and a permanent magnet assembled in soft poly (dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS), while the touch-sensing module is a planar capacitive metal-insulator-metal (MIM) structure. The flexible coil was fabricated on a 50 µm polyimide (PI) sheet using Lithographie Galvanoformung Abformung (LIGA) micromoulding technique. The Tacsac device has been tested for independent sensing and actuation as well as dual sensing-actuation mode. The measured vibration profiles of the actuator showed a synchronous response to external stimulus for a wide range of frequencies (10 Hz to 200 Hz) within the perceivable tactile frequency thresholds of the human hand. The resonance vibration frequency of the actuator is in the range of 60–70 Hz with an observed maximum off-plane displacement of 0.377 mm at coil current of 180 mA. The capacitive touch-sensitive layer was able to respond to touch with minimal noise both when actuator vibration is ON and OFF. A mobile application was also developed to demonstrate the application of Tacsac for communication between deafblind person wearing the device and a mobile phone user who is not deafblind. This advances existing tactile displays by providing efficient two-way communication through the use of a single device for both localized haptic feedback and touch-sensing.

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“…Although notifications aim to provide information related to background events [54], they can also cause frustration and decrease a user's performance by interrupting their primary task [25]. Notifications are mainly delivered through vision and audition and more recently through touch (e.g., vibro-tactile stimuli [69]), but there have also been attempts made using smell as a notification medium (e.g., [5,7]). The sense of smell helps us in perceiving and understanding information [61] where our vision is overloaded or not fully functional (e.g., visually impaired users).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Smell-O-Message

Maggioni

Cobden

Dmitrenko

et al. 2018

Proceedings of the 20th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction

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Smell is a powerful tool for conveying and recalling information without requiring visual attention. Previous work identified, however, some challenges caused by user's unfamiliarity with this modality and complexity in the scent delivery. We are now able to overcome these challenges, introducing a training approach to familiarize scent-meaning associations (urgency of a message, and sender identity) and using a controllable device for the scent-delivery. Here we re-validate the effectiveness of smell as notification modality and present findings on the performance of smell in conveying information. In a user study composed of two sessions we compared the effectiveness of visual, olfactory, and combined visual-olfactory notifications in a messaging application. We demonstrated that olfactory notifications improve users' confidence and performance in identifying the urgency level of a message, with the same reaction time and disruption levels as for visual notifications. We discuss the design implications and opportunities for future work in the domain of multimodal interactions. CCS CONCEPTS • Human-centered computing → Interaction techniques; Empirical studies in HCI ;

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Designing wearable vibrotactile notifications for information communication

Cited by 26 publications

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Design of a Massage-Inspired Haptic Device for Interpersonal Connection in Long-Distance Communication

Design of a Massage-Inspired Haptic Device for Interpersonal Connection in Long-Distance Communication

Tacsac: A Wearable Haptic Device with Capacitive Touch-Sensing Capability for Tactile Display

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