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

fYear

2013

Firstpage

45

Lastpage

46

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Consumer Electronics (ICCE), 2013 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Las Vegas, NV

ISSN

2158-3994

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1361-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCE.2013.6486788

Filename

6486788