Abstract
Vibrotactile skin-reading effectively conveys rich information via vibrotactile patterns, which has gained attention due to recent advancements. However, training to recognize and associate vibrotactile patterns with their meaning is time-consuming and tedious. The conventional training methods use repetitive exposure of the vibrotactile stimuli along with visual and auditory cues of the corresponding symbol. This work proposes a novel visual-based training method to teach users the associations between semantic information and vibrotactile patterns. Our proposed visual explanation training is compared with the conventional training method in a study with 18 participants. Results show that participants achieve a better performance using the new visual explanation training when identifying single English alphabet characters. Moreover, the proposed training also incurred a significantly lower workload (NASA TLX) and was preferred by study participants. The proposed method is thus effective and offers a less stressful form of training users for skin reading.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 103-108 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Journal | IEEE Transactions on Haptics |
Volume | 15 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2022 |
Keywords
- Actuators
- Encoding
- Skin
- Task analysis
- Testing
- Training
- Visualization
- haptic display
- training
- information interfaces and representation (HCI) information technology and systems
- technology
- tactile communication
- wearable computers
- haptics
- human haptics
- tactile feedback
- tactile display
- computer systems organization
- Computer system implementation
- haptics technology
- skin reading
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Computer Science Applications