Walking on paintings: Assessment of passive haptic feedback to enhance the immersive experience

Abstract

Virtual reality has been used in recent years for artistic expression and as a tool to engage visitors by creating immersive experiences. Most of these immersive installations incorporate visuals and sounds to enhance the user’s interaction with the artistic pieces. Very few, however, involve physical or haptic interaction. This paper investigates virtual walking on paintings using passive haptics. More specifically we combined vibrations and ultrasound technology on the feet using four different configurations to evaluate users’ immersion while they are virtually walking on paintings that transform into 3D landscapes. Results show that participants with higher immersive tendencies experienced the virtual walking by reporting illusory movement of their body regardless the haptic configuration used.

Multiscale Textile‐Based Haptic Interactions

“…There has been limited prior work on the augmentation of haptic perception as a result of cues being delivered to multiple regions of skin simultaneously. [33][34][35][36][37] Nevertheless, these works did not investigate haptic perceivability for users who changed their interactions with the haptic device. We claim that this style of haptic interaction, which we denote as "multiscale," has not previously been demonstrated due to the unique technical requirements of the wearable haptic device, where the applicable forces at each relevant scale must be coupled.…”