Designing Large Sets of Haptic Icons with Rhythm

  • Authors:
  • David Ternes;Karon E. Maclean

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada V6T 1Y8;Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada V6T 1Y8

  • Venue:
  • EuroHaptics '08 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Haptics: Perception, Devices and Scenarios
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Haptic icons (brief tangible stimuli with associated meanings) are a new way to convey information, but are difficult to design in large quantities due to technological and perceptual constraints. Here, we employ rhythmin combination with frequency and amplitude to systematically produce 84 distinguishable tactile stimuli for use as icons. The set's large size is made possible by an analysis of how users perceptually organize tactile rhythm. Through our evaluation, we find that the two primary characteristics by which users distinguish its tactile rhythms are note lengthand unevenness.