Improved Direction Signalization Technique Employing Vibrotactile Feedback
- Vibrotactile feedback via body-worn vibrating belts is a common means of direction signalization - e.g. for navigational tasks. Consequently such feedback devices are used to guide blind or visually impaired people but can also be used to support other wayfinding tasks - for instance, guiding actors in virtual studio productions. Recent effort has been made to simplify this task by integrating vibrotactile feedback into virtual studio applications. In this work we evaluate the accuracy of an improved direction signalization technique, utilizing a body-worn vibrotactile belt with a limited number of tactors, and compare it to other work. The results from our user study indicate that it is possible to signalize different directions accurately, even with a small number of tactors spaced by 90°.
Author: | Tom Vierjahn, Björn Wöldecke, Christian GeigerORCiD, Jens HerderORCiDGND |
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Qualitätssicherung: | peer reviewed |
Fachbereich/Einrichtung: | Hochschule Düsseldorf / Fachbereich - Medien |
Hochschule Düsseldorf / Fachbereich - Medien / Creative Media Production and Entertainment Computing | |
Document Type: | Conference Proceeding |
Year of Completion: | 2009 |
Language of Publication: | English |
Parent Title (English): | 11th Virtual Reality International Conference, VRIC'2009 |
First Page: | 1 |
Last Page: | 8 |
ISBN: | 2-9515730-8-1 |
Tag: | FHD VSVR; direction signalization; human factors; tactile feedback; wayfinding |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 0 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke / 00 Informatik, Wissen, Systeme / 000 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke |
Licence (German): | keine Lizenz - nur Metadaten |
Release Date: | 2019/01/11 |