May 20, 2019
IEEE WHC 2019, "Tactile Design: Translating User Expectations into Vibration for Plausible Virtual Environments"
Our paper with the title "Tactile Design: Translating User Expectations into Vibration for Plausible Virtual Environments" was accepted for IEEE World Haptics Conference 2019. We will present this topic in Tokio from 09.07.2019 bis 12.07.2019.
The aim of this paper is to demonstrate a novel design strategy for whole-body vibration based on user expectations which facilitates product design and the creation of plausible virtual environments. In both applications vibration parameters need to be derived from user expectations. Users can quantify their tactile expectations by rating a compact set of familiar sensory perceptual attributes (e.g. “tingling”, “weak”) without prior training. These ratings could be translated into parameters of vibration eliciting the expected perceptual attributes with the help of the relationship uncovered in a previous study.