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Exploring the design space of touch-based vibrotactile interactions for smartwatches

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ISWC '16: Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers

Pages 156 - 165

https://doi.org/10.1145/2971763.2971783

Published: 12 September 2016 Publication History

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Despite the rapid growth of wearable and mobile devices and associated availability of vibrotactile (VT) actuators, the design space of VT applications has remained primarily limited to event-based VT notifications. While useful in some cases, these notifications can be disruptive and cognitively-demanding. Further, the lack of perceptually salient VT sensations on consumer-grade actuators prevents use of these notifications in information-rich scenarios. In this paper, we extend the design space of VT applications by utilizing users' touch input (e.g., 2D location, path, etc.) together with VT sensations for smartwatch interactions. We examine previous work on touch-based haptic interactions for other tactile technologies and propose a design space for VT interactions. Then, we investigate user performance (error rate, completion time, perceived demand) for touch-based VT interactions with a user study. Finally, we populate the identified design space with five example applications that run on off-the-shelf smartwatches.

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ISWC '16: Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers

September 2016

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ISBN:9781450344609

DOI:10.1145/2971763

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Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3550315
Herath ARey BBardot SRempel SAudette LZheng HLi JFan KHuang DLi WIrani P(2022)Expanding Touch Interaction Capabilities for Smart-rings: An Exploration of Continual Slide and Microroll GesturesExtended Abstracts of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3491101.3519714(1-7)Online publication date: 27-Apr-2022
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