Haptic collar - vibrotactile feedback around the neck for guidance applications

Stefanie Schaack, George Chernyshov, Kirill Ragozin, Benjamin Tag, Roshan Peiris, Kai Kunze

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16 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 10th Augmented Human International Conference, AH 2019
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
ISBN (Electronic)9781450365475
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2019 Mar 11
Event10th Augmented Human International Conference, AH 2019 - Reims, France
Duration: 2019 Mar 112019 Mar 12

Publication series

NameACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Conference

Conference10th Augmented Human International Conference, AH 2019
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityReims
Period19/3/1119/3/12

Keywords

  • Collar
  • Haptic feedback
  • Haptics
  • Navigation
  • Neck
  • Sensitivity
  • Vibrotactile actuators

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Computer Networks and Communications

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