Haptic phonemes: basic building blocks of haptic communication

  • Authors:
  • Mario Enriquez;Karon MacLean;Christian Chita

  • Affiliations:
  • University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada;University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada;University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Multimodal interfaces
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

A haptic phoneme represents the smallest unit of a constructed haptic signal to which a meaning can be assigned. These haptic phonemes can be combined serially or in parallel to form haptic words, or haptic icons, which can hold more elaborate meanings for their users. Here, we use phonemes which consist of brief (