Title :
A smart phone peripheral with bi-manual skin stretch haptic feedback and user input
Author :
Montandon, M.N. ; Provancher, William
Author_Institution :
Haptics & Embedded Mechatron. Lab., Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Abstract :
We have developed and calibrated a bi-manual smartphone peripheral for rendering skin stretch feedback to a user´s thumbs. The device´s compact skin stretch displays are capable of providing repeatable haptic cues to a variety of users. Results from single- and dual-handed direction identification tests for judging 16 equally distributed direction cues show significantly better performance when the user is simultaneously provided with a direction cue on both thumbs.
Keywords :
calibration; haptic interfaces; peripheral interfaces; rendering (computer graphics); smart phones; bimanual skin stretch haptic feedback rendering; bimanual smart phone peripheral calibration; bimanual smart phone peripheral development; device skin stretch displays; dual-handed direction identification test; repeatable haptic direction cues; single-handed direction identification test; user thumb input; Accuracy; Conferences; Games; Haptic interfaces; Skin; Software; Thumb;
Conference_Titel :
Consumer Electronics (ICCE), 2013 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Las Vegas, NV
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1361-2
DOI :
10.1109/ICCE.2013.6486788
