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ThermoFeet: Assessing On-Foot Thermal Stimuli for Directional Cues

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Jeff-Owens Iyalekhue,

Sebastian Günther,

Florian MüllerAuthors Info & Claims

MUM '23: Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia

Pages 166 - 171

https://doi.org/10.1145/3626705.3627974

Published: 03 December 2023 Publication History

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Thermal feedback has been studied for navigation purposes with directional cues and a variety of other use cases. Yet, to date, systems providing thermal feedback were primarily designed for the upper body, targeting hands and arms in particular. As these parts are often occupied with other tasks, there is a need to extend the design space of thermal feedback to other body parts. To close this gap, we assess thermal feedback on the user’s feet. This research explores if creating stimuli representing any direction on a circle with only four actuators is possible. To evaluate this concept, we conducted a user study asking the participants to indicate the perceived direction after getting a hot or cold stimulus by direct actuation using one actuator or phantom actuation using two actuators. The results indicate that the detection accuracy was higher for cold signals. In addition, the results showed higher recognition for stimuli linked to actuator distribution than phantom sensation due to spatial summation.

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Günther SSkogseide ABuhlmann RMühlhäuser M(2024)Assessing the Influence of Visual Cues in Virtual Reality on the Spatial Perception of Physical Thermal StimuliProceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3613904.3642154(1-12)Online publication date: 11-May-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3613904.3642154
Mazursky ABrooks JDesta BLopes P(2024)ThermalGrasp: Enabling Thermal Feedback even while Grasping and Walking2024 IEEE Conference Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR)10.1109/VR58804.2024.00056(342-353)Online publication date: 16-Mar-2024
https://doi.org/10.1109/VR58804.2024.00056

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