Effectiveness of directional vibrotactile cuing on a building-clearing task

Authors:
Robert W. Lindeman;John L. Sibert;Erick Mendez-Mendez;Sachin Patil;Daniel Phifer
Affiliations:
The George Washington University, Washington, DC;The George Washington University, Washington, DC;The George Washington University, Washington, DC;The George Washington University, Washington, DC;The George Washington University, Washington, DC
Venue:
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Year:
2005

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Abstract

This paper presents empirical results to support the use of vibrotactile cues as a means of improving user performance on a spatial task. In a building-clearing exercise, directional vibrotactile cues were employed to alert subjects to areas of the building that they had not yet cleared, but were currently exposed to. Compared with performing the task without vibrotactile cues, subjects were exposed to uncleared areas a smaller percentage of time, and cleared more of the overall space, when given the added vibrotactile stimulus. The average length of each exposure was also significantly less when vibrotactile cues were present.