Haptic collar - vibrotactile feedback around the neck for guidance applications

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

doi:10.1145/3311823.3311840

Haptic collar - vibrotactile feedback around the neck for guidance applications

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

Graduate School of Media Design

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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 language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 10th Augmented Human International Conference, AH 2019
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450365475
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3311823.3311840
Publication status	Published - 2019 Mar 11
Event	10th Augmented Human International Conference, AH 2019 - Reims, France Duration: 2019 Mar 11 → 2019 Mar 12

Publication series

Name	ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Conference

Conference	10th Augmented Human International Conference, AH 2019
Country	France
City	Reims
Period	19/3/11 → 19/3/12

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Keywords

Collar
Haptic feedback
Haptics
Navigation
Neck
Sensitivity
Vibrotactile actuators

ASJC Scopus subject areas

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

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Schaack, S., Chernyshov, G., Ragozin, K., Tag, B., Peiris, R., & Kunze, K. S. (2019). Haptic collar - vibrotactile feedback around the neck for guidance applications. In Proceedings of the 10th Augmented Human International Conference, AH 2019 [a12] (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3311823.3311840

Haptic collar - vibrotactile feedback around the neck for guidance applications. / Schaack, Stefanie; Chernyshov, George; Ragozin, Kirill; Tag, Benjamin; Peiris, Roshan; Kunze, Kai Steven.

Proceedings of the 10th Augmented Human International Conference, AH 2019. Association for Computing Machinery, 2019. a12 (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Schaack, S, Chernyshov, G, Ragozin, K, Tag, B, Peiris, R & Kunze, KS 2019, Haptic collar - vibrotactile feedback around the neck for guidance applications. in Proceedings of the 10th Augmented Human International Conference, AH 2019., a12, ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, Association for Computing Machinery, 10th Augmented Human International Conference, AH 2019, Reims, France, 19/3/11. https://doi.org/10.1145/3311823.3311840

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