EmoJacket: Consumer centric wearable affective jacket to enhance emotional immersion

This paper describes the results of a survey that was conducted to involve consumers in the design of a haptic jacket as a HCI device. It also describes how the system is designed, implemented and evaluated. The jacket contains an embedded computing system and haptic actuators that are programmed to affect its user emotionally and improve their immersion in gaming and movie watching. The prototype is composed of 6 affective haptic components: chest and neck vibration, neck warmth, heartbeat simulation, arms vibration and shivering. The paper shows that the system may be used in different applications with the proper interfacing software. Finally, evaluation shows an improvement in purpose by conducting a QoE experiment.