@inproceedings{25e5b98047314c3dbb57ae1a4d33c260,
title = "EMS icons: Conveying information by analogy to enhance communication through electrical muscle stimulation",
abstract = "Electrical Muscle Stimulation (EMS) has recently received an increased amount of attention from the HCI community. It has been used to remote control users for navigation and instrument playing, but also as a method to convey haptic feedback in VR, for example. As EMS devices become commercially available and application research continues, we explore EMS as a modality to convey information through actuation and as a means to induce and communicate emotions and moods. In this position paper, we present the results from two focus groups on using EMS for interpersonal communication as a way to send and receive emoticons through electrical stimulation. We argue that so-called {"}EMS Icons{"} have the potential to become part of multimedia experiences and more broadly of User Interfaces as a haptic variant in analogy to visual and auditory icons.",
keywords = "EMS, EMS Icon, Emoji, Emoticon, Immersion, Remote communication",
author = "Tilman Dingler and Takashi Goto and Benjamin Tag and Kai Kunze",
note = "Funding Information: This work is supported by JST (CREST, Presto), Grant No: JP-MJPR16D4. Publisher Copyright: Copyright {\textcopyright} 2017 ACM.; 2017 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers, UbiComp/ISWC 2017 ; Conference date: 11-09-2017 Through 15-09-2017",
year = "2017",
month = sep,
day = "11",
doi = "10.1145/3123024.3129275",
language = "English",
series = "UbiComp/ISWC 2017 - Adjunct Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery, Inc",
pages = "732--739",
booktitle = "UbiComp/ISWC 2017 - Adjunct Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers",
}