An investigation into the use of tactile instructions in snowboarding

Spelmezan, Daniel

doi:10.1145/2371574.2371639

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“…By tackling the wall with bare hands, climbers feel the materiality of the rock in search for the best holds, and through the spatial sensations of touch, like kinesthesis and proprioception, they perceive the inclination of the wall and adjust their balance accordingly [5]. In the literature, haptic feedback has been demonstrated to be valuable for giving motion instructions in the field of sports [25] and to be perceivable also specifically while climbing [13]. Furthermore, haptic feedback has also been investigated as a way to convey emotions [24] and mediated social touch [11] for remote interpersonal interactions, and also for audience cheering up during sport performances [28].…”

Section: Haptic Communicationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Design Opportunities for Wearable Devices in Learning to Climb

Mencarini

Leonardi

Angeli

et al. 2016

Proceedings of the 9th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction

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In this paper, we present a field study on the learning of climbing aimed at defining the design space of wearable devices to support beginners. Three main findings have emerged from our study. First, climbing has a strong emotional impact on beginners; therefore, learning to climb requires mastering new motor patterns as well as negative emotions, such as stress and fear. Second, the feeling of danger that climbers often experience can be mitigated by trust in the climbing partner and the perception of her active presence. Finally, a big problem in climbing is the communication difficulty between the climbing partners and between climber and instructor. We conclude the paper presenting four design considerations for the design of wearable devices meant to support the learning of climbing by providing the actors involved with augmented communication. Such augmented communication should address both the physical and the emotional difficulties of this sport.

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Section: Haptic Communicationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…[1,13]. A part of these studies focused on the initial phase of learning a new sport in order to facilitate the acquisition of new motor skills [10,21,25]. However, the learning of a new sport often entails a high level of emotional involvement, which may influence the performance [9].…”

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confidence: 99%

Design Opportunities for Wearable Devices in Learning to Climb

Mencarini

Leonardi

Angeli

et al. 2016

Proceedings of the 9th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction

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“…These systems include technologies that embed directly into the activity and seek to improve performance and training. Training systems have been studied using tactile instructions to give athletes cues on navigation, timing and posture in different sports [8,35].…”

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Tactile Communication in Extreme Contexts: Exploring the Design Space Through Kiteboarding

Schmidt

Kleemann

Merritt

et al. 2015

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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“…With several vibrotactile actuators, it is possible to provide intuitive navigation information to users [18,27,29]. Other applications include motor skill learning in sports [24], helicopter landing [11], obstacle avoidance [1], visual search [14], and awareness of other people [20]. Vibrotactile stimulation in these applications has typically been presented to the user's torso [20,27,29], back [11], legs [24], hands [14], or shoulders [24].…”

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Gaze Cueing with a Vibrotactile Headband for a Visual Search Task

2017

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Augmented attention, assisting the user in noticing important things, is one of the ways human action can be enhanced with technologies. We investigated how vibrotactile stimulation given to the forehead could be used to cue gaze direction. We built a vibrotactile headband with an array of six actuators that presented short, tap-like cues. In the first experiment, the participant was instructed to look at the point on a horizontal line that they thought the vibrotactile cue was pointing to. Analysis of the participant's gaze points showed that for the majority there were statistically significant differences between cues from different actuators. This indicated that the six actuators could successfully direct the participant's gaze to different areas of the visual field. In addition, vibrotactile cueing of gaze direction could be used for directing visual attention and providing navigation cues with wearable headbands. To strengthen our findings, we investigated how effective the vibrotactile stimulation would be to cue gaze direction in a visual search task. Participant's were asked to find a deviant shape (a target) from a display full of simple shapes. The vibrotactile cueing implemented with the headband device was used to inform the participants of the approximate horizontal position of the target in three different experimental conditions. In the most informative condition, six actuators were used to inform the participant of the horizontal area where the target would be found, in the second condition two actuators were used to inform the participant of the target side on the display (left or right), and in the least informative condition no directional information was given. Analysis of the trial completion times showed that there were statistically significant differences between the least informative condition and the two other conditions. However, we did not find significant differences in trial completion times between the two conditions where information of the target location was given. This indicated that while the actuators could successfully direct the participant's attention to different areas of the visual field to help in the search task, the simple approach of just adding actuators and dividing the visual field to more sub-areas did not improve the results. The findings of this study showed that while there is potential in using vibrotactile cueing of gaze direction, more research is needed to fully exploit it.

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An investigation into the use of tactile instructions in snowboarding

Cited by 70 publications

References 16 publications

Design Opportunities for Wearable Devices in Learning to Climb

Design Opportunities for Wearable Devices in Learning to Climb

Tactile Communication in Extreme Contexts: Exploring the Design Space Through Kiteboarding

Gaze Cueing with a Vibrotactile Headband for a Visual Search Task

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