Title
TorqueScreen: Actuated Flywheels for Ungrounded Kinaesthetic Feedback in Handheld Devices
Abstract
Handheld touch screen based devices, such as smartphones or tablets, typically provide limited haptic feedback. On cur- rent devices, what is visually perceived and what is tactile and kinesthetically felt is semantically uncoupled. In order to improve embodied interaction on handheld screen based devices, new ways to provide richer haptic feedback are re- quired. In this paper, we present TorqueScreen, a prototypi- cal system combining a handheld touch screen device (i.e., a tablet) with an actuated flywheel capable of imposing angular momentum onto the tablet. The TorqueScreen design allows interlinking the movement and physics of virtual objects on the screen with the torque as haptic output imposed on the tablet. We describe the design and implementation of the de- vice, illustrate the resulting design space, and discuss future improvements and potential applications.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1145/2677199.2680579
Tangible and Embedded Interaction
Keywords
Field
DocType
miscellaneous,ungrounded feedback,haptic,movement,gyroscope
Design space,Angular momentum,Gyroscope,Torque,Computer science,Simulation,Flywheel,Embodied cognition,Human–computer interaction,Mobile device,Haptic technology
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
6
0.55
12
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Martin Murer114221.10
Bernhard Maurer2518.88
Hermann Huber360.89
Ilhan Aslan416922.57
Manfred Tscheligi52567570.72