Title
iFeeling: vibrotactile rendering of human emotions on mobile phones
Abstract
Today, the mobile phone technology is mature enough to enable us to effectively interact with mobile phones using our three major senses namely, vision, hearing and touch. Similar to the camera, which adds interest and utility to mobile experience, the vibration motor in a mobile phone could give us a new possibility to improve interactivity and usability of mobile phones. In this chapter, we show that by carefully controlling vibration patterns, more than 1-bit information can be rendered with a vibration motor. We demonstrate how to turn a mobile phone into a social interface for the blind so that they can sense emotional information of others. The technical details are given on how to extract emotional information, design vibrotactile coding schemes, render vibrotactile patterns, as well as how to carry out user tests to evaluate its usability. Experimental studies and users tests have shown that we do get and interpret more than one bit emotional information. This shows a potential to enrich mobile phones communication among the users through the touch channel.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2008
Mobile Multimedia Processing
design vibrotactile,mobile phones communication,emotional information,vibration pattern,human emotion,bit emotional information,vibration motor,vibrotactile rendering,mobile experience,mobile phone,mobile phone technology,1-bit information,signal processing,information design
Field
DocType
Volume
Mobile technology,Interactivity,Mobile search,Usability,Human–computer interaction,Mobile phone,Engineering,Rendering (computer graphics),Multimedia,Mobile telephony,Information and Computer Science
Conference
5960
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
0302-9743
3-642-12348-1
12
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.94
21
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Shafiq Ur Réhman128429.26
Li Liu2443.77