ThermoVR: Exploring integrated thermal haptic feedback with head mounted displays

Roshan Lalintha Peiris; Wei Peng; Zikun Chen; Liwei Chan; Kouta Minamizawa

doi:10.1145/3025453.3025824

ThermoVR: Exploring integrated thermal haptic feedback with head mounted displays

Roshan Lalintha Peiris, Wei Peng, Zikun Chen, Liwei Chan, Kouta Minamizawa

Graduate School of Media Design

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

61 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

Head Mounted Displays (HMDs) provide a promising opportunity for providing haptic feedback on the head for an enhanced immersive experience. In ThermoVR, we integrated five thermal feedback modules on the HMD to provide thermal feedback directly onto the user's face. We conducted evaluations with 15 participants using two approaches: Firstly, we provided simultaneously actuated thermal stimulations (hot and cold) as directional cues and evaluated the accuracy of recognition; secondly, we evaluated the overall immersive thermal experience that the users experience when provided with thermal feedback on the face. Results indicated that the recognition accuracy for cold stimuli were of approx. 89.5% accuracy while the accuracy for hot stimuli were 68.6%. Also, participants reported that they felt a higher level of immersion on the face when all modules were simultaneously stimulated (hot and cold). The presented applications demonstrate the ThermoVR's directional cueing and immersive experience.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Subtitle of host publication	Explore, Innovate, Inspire
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	5452-5456
Number of pages	5
Volume	2017-May
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450346559
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025824
Publication status	Published - 2017 May 2
Event	2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2017 - Denver, United States Duration: 2017 May 6 → 2017 May 11

Other

Other	2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2017
Country	United States
City	Denver
Period	17/5/6 → 17/5/11

Keywords

Head mounted display
Thermal display
Thermal haptics

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
Software

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Peiris, R. L., Peng, W., Chen, Z., Chan, L., & Minamizawa, K. (2017). ThermoVR: Exploring integrated thermal haptic feedback with head mounted displays. In CHI 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Explore, Innovate, Inspire (Vol. 2017-May, pp. 5452-5456). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025824

ThermoVR : Exploring integrated thermal haptic feedback with head mounted displays. / Peiris, Roshan Lalintha; Peng, Wei; Chen, Zikun; Chan, Liwei; Minamizawa, Kouta.

CHI 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Explore, Innovate, Inspire. Vol. 2017-May Association for Computing Machinery, 2017. p. 5452-5456.

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

Peiris, RL, Peng, W, Chen, Z, Chan, L & Minamizawa, K 2017, ThermoVR: Exploring integrated thermal haptic feedback with head mounted displays. in CHI 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Explore, Innovate, Inspire. vol. 2017-May, Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 5452-5456, 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2017, Denver, United States, 17/5/6. https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025824

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