Haptic Intelligence Robotic Materials Miscellaneous 2024

Active Haptic Feedback for a Virtual Wrist-Anchored User Interface

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The presented system combines a virtual wrist-anchored user interface (UI) with a new low-profle, wrist-worn device that provides salient and expressive haptic feedback such as contact, pressure and broad-bandwidth vibration. This active feedback is used to add tactile cues to interactions with virtual mid-air UI elements that track the user's wrist; we demonstrate a simple menu-interaction task to showcase the utility of haptics for interactions with virtual buttons and sliders. Moving forward, we intend to use this platform to develop haptic guidelines for body-anchored interfaces and test multiple haptic devices across the body to create engaging interactions.

Author(s): Jan Ulrich Bartels and Natalia Sanchez-Tamayo and Michael Sedlmair and Katherine J. Kuchenbecker
Book Title: Adjunct Proceedings of the Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST)
Year: 2024
Month: October
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Bibtex Type: Miscellaneous (misc)
Address: Pittsburgh, USA
DOI: 10.1145/3672539.3686765
Electronic Archiving: grant_archive
How Published: Hands-on demonstration presented at the Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST)
State: Published

BibTex

@misc{Bartels24-UISTD-Wrist,
  title = {Active Haptic Feedback for a Virtual Wrist-Anchored User Interface},
  booktitle = {Adjunct Proceedings of the Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST)},
  abstract = {The presented system combines a virtual wrist-anchored user interface (UI) with a new low-profle, wrist-worn device that provides salient and expressive haptic feedback such as contact, pressure and broad-bandwidth vibration. This active feedback is used to add tactile cues to interactions with virtual mid-air UI elements that track the user's wrist; we demonstrate a simple menu-interaction task to showcase the utility of haptics for interactions with virtual buttons and sliders. Moving forward, we intend to use this platform to develop haptic guidelines for body-anchored interfaces and test multiple haptic devices across the body to create engaging interactions.},
  howpublished = {Hands-on demonstration presented at the Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST)},
  address = {Pittsburgh, USA},
  month = oct,
  year = {2024},
  slug = {bartels24-uistd-wrist},
  author = {Bartels, Jan Ulrich and Sanchez-Tamayo, Natalia and Sedlmair, Michael and Kuchenbecker, Katherine J.},
  month_numeric = {10}
}