Title
Preliminary experiment combining virtual reality haptic shoes and audio synthesis
Abstract
We describe a system that provides combined auditory and haptic sensations to simulate walking on different grounds. It uses a physical model that drives haptic transducers embedded in sandals and headphones. The model represents walking interactions with solid surfaces that can creak, or be covered with crumpling material. In a preliminary discrimination experiment, 15 participants were asked to recognize four different surfaces in a list of sixteen possibilities and under three different conditions, haptics only, audition only and combined haptic-audition. The results indicate that subjects are able to recognize most of the stimuli in the audition only condition, and some of the material properties such as hardness in the haptics only condition. The combination of auditory and haptic cues did not improve recognition significantly.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2010
EuroHaptics (2)
virtual reality haptic shoe,different condition,audio synthesis,physical model,different surface,crumpling material,preliminary experiment,material property,combined haptic-audition,haptic sensation,different ground,haptic cue,haptic transducers,virtual reality,material properties,physical models
Field
DocType
Volume
Headphones,Computer vision,Virtual reality,Computer science,Audio synthesis,Artificial intelligence,Haptic technology,Stereotaxy
Conference
6192
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
0302-9743
3-642-14074-2
17
PageRank 
References 
Authors
1.11
13
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Rolf Nordahl125827.63
Amir Berrezag2362.71
Smilen Dimitrov3304.57
Luca Turchet49813.77
Vincent Hayward51343172.28
Stefania Serafin652383.70