ProximityHat

Berning, Matthias; Braun, Florian; Riedel, Till; Beigl, Michael

doi:10.1145/2802083.2802088

Cited by 39 publications

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“…The Flutter Dress (Profita et al, 2015) listens for directional audio and then triggers haptic responses through vibration motors to indicate to the wearer the presence and direction of a sound source. The Proximity Hat (Berning et al, 2015) has a similar concept to the Flutter Dress, but it uses ultrasonic sensors to detect physical obstacles and relays that directional information into vibration motors. E-textiles interfaces using computational audio can be found in interfaces for other communities beyond the visually impaired.…”

Section: Assistive Technologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Cords and Chords: Exploring the Role of E-Textiles in Computational Audio

Stewart

2019

Front. ICT

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Electronic textiles (e-textiles) have played a significant role in computational audio ranging from wearable interfaces for creative expression to more utilitarian purposes such as acoustic monitoring for military applications. This article looks at e-textiles within computational audio from three perspectives: the historical developments of the field; the core enabling technologies; and the primary application areas. It closes with a discussion of what role e-textiles may play in future computational audio systems.

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Section: Assistive Technologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Cords and Chords: Exploring the Role of E-Textiles in Computational Audio

Stewart

2019

Front. ICT

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“…Haptic Radar [10] is a ring around the head, consisting of multiple infrared sensors and vibrotactile actuators in order to give users a "spider sense" of approaching objects. A similar concept is Proximity Hat [19], which uses pressure instead of vibrotactile actuators and stimulates other receptors (Merkel disks). Kerdegari et al [21] developed a firefighter helmet with seven vibrotactile actuators on the forehead.…”

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Increasing Presence in Virtual Reality with a Vibrotactile Grid Around the Head

Kaul¹,

Meier²,

Rohs³

2017

Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2017

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A high level of presence is an important aspect of immersive virtual reality applications. However, presence is difficult to achieve as it depends on the individual user, immersion capabilities of the system (visual, auditory, and tactile) and the concrete application. We use a vibrotactile grid around the head in order to further increase the level of presence users feel in virtual reality scenes. In a between-groups comparison study the vibrotactile group scored significantly higher in a standardized presence questionnaire compared to the baseline of no tactile feedback. This suggests the proposed prototype as an additional tool to increase the level of presence users feel in virtual reality scenes.

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“…For each search trial, the location of the target shape and the orientation (left/right) was randomly selected, and the task of the participant was to press one of two dedicated keys to indicate the direction of the deviant corner shape. 1 For the conditional gaze cueing, the display was divided into seven segments (see Fig. 6).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…With several vibrotactile actuators, it is possible to provide intuitive navigation information to users [18,27,29]. Other applications include motor skill learning in sports [24], helicopter landing [11], obstacle avoidance [1], visual search [14], and awareness of other people [20]. Vibrotactile stimulation in these applications has typically been presented to the user's torso [20,27,29], back [11], legs [24], hands [14], or shoulders [24].…”

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Gaze Cueing with a Vibrotactile Headband for a Visual Search Task

2017

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Augmented attention, assisting the user in noticing important things, is one of the ways human action can be enhanced with technologies. We investigated how vibrotactile stimulation given to the forehead could be used to cue gaze direction. We built a vibrotactile headband with an array of six actuators that presented short, tap-like cues. In the first experiment, the participant was instructed to look at the point on a horizontal line that they thought the vibrotactile cue was pointing to. Analysis of the participant's gaze points showed that for the majority there were statistically significant differences between cues from different actuators. This indicated that the six actuators could successfully direct the participant's gaze to different areas of the visual field. In addition, vibrotactile cueing of gaze direction could be used for directing visual attention and providing navigation cues with wearable headbands. To strengthen our findings, we investigated how effective the vibrotactile stimulation would be to cue gaze direction in a visual search task. Participant's were asked to find a deviant shape (a target) from a display full of simple shapes. The vibrotactile cueing implemented with the headband device was used to inform the participants of the approximate horizontal position of the target in three different experimental conditions. In the most informative condition, six actuators were used to inform the participant of the horizontal area where the target would be found, in the second condition two actuators were used to inform the participant of the target side on the display (left or right), and in the least informative condition no directional information was given. Analysis of the trial completion times showed that there were statistically significant differences between the least informative condition and the two other conditions. However, we did not find significant differences in trial completion times between the two conditions where information of the target location was given. This indicated that while the actuators could successfully direct the participant's attention to different areas of the visual field to help in the search task, the simple approach of just adding actuators and dividing the visual field to more sub-areas did not improve the results. The findings of this study showed that while there is potential in using vibrotactile cueing of gaze direction, more research is needed to fully exploit it.

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ProximityHat

Cited by 39 publications

References 13 publications

Cords and Chords: Exploring the Role of E-Textiles in Computational Audio

Cords and Chords: Exploring the Role of E-Textiles in Computational Audio

Increasing Presence in Virtual Reality with a Vibrotactile Grid Around the Head

Gaze Cueing with a Vibrotactile Headband for a Visual Search Task

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