Title :
Design of a wearable vibrotactile display waist belt
Author :
Hao, Fei ; Song, Ai-guo
Author_Institution :
Remote Meas. & Control Lab. of Jiangsu Province, Southeast Univ., Nanjing, China
Abstract :
In this paper, the design of a wearable vibrotactile display waist belt that can impart situation awareness information on the user´s waist were presented. The hardware of the vibrotactile display consists of 12 tactors attached to an elastic belt and the associated control and drive circuit. A technical overview and experiments of the system is presented as well as preliminary results on tactile perception to evaluate its performance on information transmission. These experiments show that the vibrotactile code scheme for direction is effective in increasing the users´ situation awareness.
Keywords :
belts; display devices; driver circuits; haptic interfaces; tactile sensors; vibrations; wearable computers; drive circuit; elastic belt; information transmission; situation awareness; tactile perception; user waist; vibrotactile code scheme; wearable vibrotactile display waist belt; Belts; Hardware; Humans; Navigation; Skin; Vibrations; Visualization; direction information coding; orientation experiment; tactor; vibrotactile display;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Control and Automation (WCICA), 2010 8th World Congress on
Conference_Location :
Jinan
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6712-9
DOI :
10.1109/WCICA.2010.5554697
