Paper Info
Title
Speaking Haptics: Proactive haptic articulation for intercommunication in virtual environments
Abstract
Communication is crucial in collaborative tasks. Multimodal strategies are commonly applied to complement, reinforce and disam-biguate information exchange. However, although multimodal communication is commonplace in Collaborative Virtual Environments, the proactive use of touch for intercommunication is surprisingly neglected regardless its importance for communication. In this paper, we look up to elements present in speech articulation to introduce the proactive haptic articulation as a novel approach for communication in CVEs. We defend the hypothesis that elements present in natural language, when added to the design of the vibro-tactile vocabulary, should provide an expressive medium for intercommunication. Moreover, we hypothesize that the ability to render tactile cues to a teammate will encourage users to adapt a given vocabulary spontaneously during its use. We implemented a case study around a collaborative puzzle task to demonstrate the use of such vocabulary. Results show that the proactive haptic articulation provided a way for participants to autonomously and dynamically adapt the provided tactile vocabulary to attend their communication needs during the task.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/VR.2016.7504748
2016 IEEE Virtual Reality (VR)
Keywords
Field
DocType
H.5.1 [Information Interface and Presentation]: Multimedia Information Systems — Artificial, augmented, and virtual realities,H.5.2 [Information Interfaces & Presentation]: User Interfaces — Haptic I/O
Sensory cue,Computer science,Information exchange,Manner of articulation,Multimodal communication,Human–computer interaction,Natural language,Vocabulary,Multimedia,Haptic technology
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1087-8270
0
0.34
References 
Authors
4
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Victor Adriel de J. Oliveira1223.65
Luciana Porcher Nedel212719.55
Anderson Maciel317731.16