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Multi-Sensory Stimuli Improve Distinguishability of Cutaneous Haptic Cues
- Source :
- IEEE Transactions on Haptics. 13:286-297
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2020.
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Abstract
- Wearable haptic systems offer portable, private tactile communication to a human user. To date, advances in wearable haptic devices have typically focused on the optimization of haptic cue transmission using a single modality, or have combined two types of cutaneous feedbacks, each mapped to a particular parameter of the task. Alternatively, researchers have employed arrays of haptic tactile actuators to maximize information throughput to a user. However, when large cue sets are to be transmitted, such as those required to communicate language, perceptual interference between transmitted cues can decrease the efficacy of single-sensory systems, or require large footprints to ensure salient spatiotemporal cues are rendered to the user. In this paper, we present a wearable, multi-sensory haptic feedback system, MISSIVE (Multi-sensory Interface of Stretch, Squeeze, and Integrated Vibration Elements), that conveys multi-sensory haptic cues to the user's upper arm. We present experimental results that demonstrate that rendering haptic cues with multi-sensory components-specifically, lateral skin stretch, radial squeeze, and vibrotactile stimuli-improved perceptual distinguishability in comparison to similar cues with all-vibrotactile components. These results support the incorporation of diverse stimuli, both vibrotactile and nonvibrotactile, for applications requiring large haptic cue sets.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Skin stretch
InformationSystems_INFORMATIONINTERFACESANDPRESENTATION(e.g.,HCI)
Computer science
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ComputingMethodologies_IMAGEPROCESSINGANDCOMPUTERVISION
Wearable computer
Computer Science Applications
Rendering (computer graphics)
Human-Computer Interaction
Wearable Electronic Devices
InformationSystems_MODELSANDPRINCIPLES
Touch Perception
Multi sensory
Feedback, Sensory
Human–computer interaction
Skin Physiological Phenomena
Perception
Tactile communication
Humans
Cues
Wearable Electronic Device
ComputingMethodologies_COMPUTERGRAPHICS
media_common
Haptic technology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 23340134 and 19391412
- Volume :
- 13
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- IEEE Transactions on Haptics
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....6cccaafa535606ad87e4f64aeac6af18