Perceptual and Affective Characteristics of Tactile Stimuli

With the advent of technology, tactile stimuli are adopted widely in many human-computer interactions. However, their perceptual and emotional characteristics are not much studied yet. In this talk, to help in understanding these characteristics, I will introduce my perception and emotion studies, as well as my future research plan. For perceptual characteristics, I will introduce an estimation method for perceived intensity of superimposed vibrations, verbal expressions for vibrotactile stimuli, and adjectival magnitude functions. Then, I will present a vibrotactile authoring tool that utilizes the adjectival magnitude functions as an application. For affective characteristics, I will introduce my emotion studies that investigate the effects of physical parameters of vibrotactile and thermal stimuli on the emotional responses using the valence-arousal space (V-A space). Then, as an application, I will present an emotion augmenting method that changes the emotion of visual stimuli in mobile devices using tactile stimuli.