TactJam: a collaborative playground for composing spatial tactons

We present TactJam, an end-to-end suite for creating and sharing low fidelity prototypes of on-body vibrotactile feedback. With Tac-tJam, designers can create, record and share vibrotactile patterns online. This opens up new ways of collaboratively designing vibrotactile patterns both in collocated as well as in remote settings. We evaluate TactJam in a two-part distributed online workshop, exploring the design of on-body tactons. Participants were able to successfully use TactJam to learn about tacton design. We present an overview of mappings between tactons and their associated concepts before comparing the results of tactons created using solely a GUI and tactons created through experimenting with placements directly on the body. Conducting both parts of the workshop separately highlighted the importance of designing directly with bodies: less implicit assumptions were made, and designs were guided by personal experience. We reflect on these results and close on deliberations for the future development of TactJam.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial International 4.0 License.

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Sustainable Haptic Design: Improving Collaboration, Sharing, and Reuse in Haptic Design Research

Schneider

Fruchard

Wittchen³

et al. 2022

CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts

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TactJam: a collaborative playground for composing spatial tactons

Abstract: Figure 1: TactJam prototype: using a tangible interface, users can quickly design tactons while experiencing them on their body.

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TactJam: An End-to-End Prototyping Suite for Collaborative Design of On-Body Vibrotactile Feedback

Sustainable Haptic Design: Improving Collaboration, Sharing, and Reuse in Haptic Design Research

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