Direct Tactile Coupling of Mobile Phones with the feelabuzz System

Tünnermann, René; Leichsenring, Christian; Hermann, Thomas

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-54325-8_8

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“…Systems were classified as "automatic" if the user does not have to provide an input consciously (e.g., by pressing a button), but rather output is sent automatically in the background through sensors in the system for example, through an accelerometer (e.g., FEELABUZZ;Tünnermann et al, 2014) or physiological measurements (e.g., AWE Goosebumps; Neidlinger et al, 2017). There are also systems that have multiple options for input type.…”

Section: Input Typementioning

confidence: 99%

“…For system addressing a single location on the body, the following labels were used: "The face" (e.g., CheekTouch; Park et al, 2012), "hand" [this also included touches experienced on the fingers; e.g., HB Ring (see text footnote 1)], "upper body" (this includes touches on the stomach, torso, shoulder or forearm; e.g., TaSST; Huisman and Frederiks, 2013), "lower body" (this includes abdomen and legs; e.g., Blum and Cooperstock, 2016) and "feet" (e.g., ComSlipper; Chen et al, 2006). However, some systems provide haptic stimulations on multiple body sections (e.g., Stitchies; Stenslie et al, 2013) or the body location is dependent on where the device is placed or hold (e.g., FEELABUZZ; Tünnermann et al, 2014). For a system that addressed more than a single location of the body, we used the label "other".…”

Section: Body Locationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Uncovering terra incognita in the AHD design space: A review of affective haptic devices

Askari

Haans

IJsselsteijn

2022

Front. Comput. Sci.

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Affective haptic devices (AHDs) have been developed with the aim of communicating touch acts, symbolic messages, emotions, and/or providing a sense of social awareness. Within AHDs, three categories can be distinguished: mediated social touch (MST), symbolic communication systems, and awareness systems. For each of these categories, prototypes have been developed and discussed in the literature. Each such prototype, however, describes but a small part of the design space of AHDs. What is lacking is a description of the design space itself—of all choices that can be considered during the design process. Such a description will allow for a more systematic exploration of AHD designs and provides a means of combining insights gained from individual point solutions (i.e., existing prototypes). Therefore, in this article, we provide a systematic description of the design space of AHDs and its underlying dimensions based on general (e.g., revisability or synchronicity) and AHD-specific (e.g., actuation type) communication system characteristics. This resulted in 17 design dimensions, each consisting of two or more categories (the design characteristics). Based on a systematic literature search from devices up to 2019, 89 AHD prototypes were identified, and each was classified on the design dimensions. The empirical analysis of where these AHDs are located in the design space revealed, first, that potentially interesting characteristics from mediated communication, such as revisability and reviewability, are underexplored in AHDs. Second, MST devices were found to often lack those system characteristics, such as real-time modalities, that seem crucial for providing the affordances needed to simulate social touch. In particular, when comparing symbolic and awareness devices to MST devices, we found the latter to more frequently lack some of the key characteristics of face-to-face communication (i.e., bi-directional and symmetric communication). Limitations and implications are discussed.

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Section: Input Typementioning

confidence: 99%