Paper Info
Title
VibrationCap: studying vibrotactile localization on the human head with an unobtrusive wearable tactile display.
Abstract
In this paper, we present the VibrationCap system and its evaluation. Two main contributions are made. First, we provide recommendations for wearable- and technology-design of head-worn vibration displays. Second, we study how accurately individual vibrations can be localized on the head, depending on their position. The VibrationCap is an unobtrusive, inconspicuous, wireless head-worn vibration display completely integrated into a regular beanie. We use 19 vibration motors to apply vibrations of varying duration to predefined locations of the head. Using this prototype, we conducted a study with 20 participants on the ability to locate vibrations applied to small areas (ca. 1 cm2) of the head. We show that depending on the region, the ability to locate vibration can vary significantly. With this data we created a vibro-tactile localization accuracy mapping of the human head.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1145/3123021.3123047
UbiComp '17: The 2017 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing Maui Hawaii September, 2017
Keywords
Field
DocType
Tactile Display, Haptic Interaction, Wearable Computing, Vibrotactile Localization
Computer vision,Haptic interaction,Wireless,Computer science,Wearable computer,Tactile display,Artificial intelligence,Vibration,Human head,Embedded system
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-5188-1
3
0.52
References 
Authors
13
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Vincent Diener130.52
M. Beigl22034311.09
Matthias Budde317523.08
Erik Pescara4135.77