TY - GEN
T1 - Haptic collar - vibrotactile feedback around the neck for guidance applications
AU - Schaack, Stefanie
AU - Chernyshov, George
AU - Ragozin, Kirill
AU - Tag, Benjamin
AU - Peiris, Roshan
AU - Kunze, Kai
N1 - Funding Information:
The work is supported by the Japan Science and Technology Agency PRESTO program under Grant No: JPMJPR16D4.
Publisher Copyright:
©2019 Copyright held by the owner/author(s).
PY - 2019/3/11
Y1 - 2019/3/11
N2 - In this paper, we present a Haptic Collar prototype, a neck worn band with vibrotactile actuators for eyes-free haptic navigation. We evaluate the system for guidance applications on over 11 users, analyzing 4 different tactile patterns regarding comfort and ease of understanding as well as the number of actuators to encode 8 directions (4, 6 and 8). Overall, users can recognize the directional signs well (up to 95 % recognition rates for over 528 triggers). We also present a use case applying our prototype for a haptic navigation walk.
AB - In this paper, we present a Haptic Collar prototype, a neck worn band with vibrotactile actuators for eyes-free haptic navigation. We evaluate the system for guidance applications on over 11 users, analyzing 4 different tactile patterns regarding comfort and ease of understanding as well as the number of actuators to encode 8 directions (4, 6 and 8). Overall, users can recognize the directional signs well (up to 95 % recognition rates for over 528 triggers). We also present a use case applying our prototype for a haptic navigation walk.
KW - Collar
KW - Haptic feedback
KW - Haptics
KW - Navigation
KW - Neck
KW - Sensitivity
KW - Vibrotactile actuators
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U2 - 10.1145/3311823.3311840
DO - 10.1145/3311823.3311840
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85062989505
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
BT - Proceedings of the 10th Augmented Human International Conference, AH 2019
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 10th Augmented Human International Conference, AH 2019
Y2 - 11 March 2019 through 12 March 2019
ER -