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Human senses and perception are our mechanisms to explore the external world. In this context, visual saccades –rapid and coordinated eye movements– serve as a primary tool for awareness of our surroundings. Typically, our perception is not limited to ...

Ultrasound haptic devices can create parametric audio as well as contactless haptic feedback. We investigate if multimodal output from these devices can influence the perception of haptic feedback. We used a magnitude estimation experiment to evaluate ...

Even in the digital age, designers largely rely on physical material samples to illustrate their products, as existing visual representations fail to sufficiently reproduce the look and feel of real world materials. Here, we investigate the use of ...

Under normal circumstances, our sense of touch is limited to our body. Recent evidence suggests, however, that our perception of touch can also be expanded to objects we are holding when certain tactile illusions are elicited by delivering vibrotactile ...

Magic Lining draws attention to the unused internal side of the garments and textile as a space to alter people's self-perception for more positive behavior. It builds on the existing characteristics of textiles, fashion and garment design, and combines ...

This paper provides a presentation of the ideation, design, and implementation processes of a wearable musical instrument for performance based storytelling. This experimental project seeks ways to integrate technology into interactive dance performance ...

Augmented reality applications using stereo head-mounted displays are not capable of perfectly blending real and virtual objects. For example, depth in the real world is perceived through cues such as accommodation and vergence. However, in stereo head-...

In an initial study, we characterized the properties of human reach motion in the presence or absence of visuo-haptic feedback in real and Immersive Virtual Environments (IVEs) or virtual reality within a participant’s maximum arm reach. Our goal is to ...

It is common practice in movies and games to use different actors for the voice and body/face motion of a virtual character. What effect does the combination of these different modalities have on the perception of the viewer? In this article, we conduct ...

The wide availability of human-computer interfaces which stimulate our senses (vision, hearing and touch) does not equally serve all categories of end users: people with sensory and/or motor disabilities cannot access information as the majority does, ...

It was recently announced that there are now more than three billion touch screens in circulation [1]. What such a figure emphasizes, I think, is that touch is becoming an increasingly pervasive feature of our interaction with many technologies, from ...

Perception of external events often depends on integrating different sensory information. Many studies show strong evidence for visual-tactile integrations. Understanding how visual and tactile information are merged together is still a challenging ...

In this article, we investigate the perception of optically simulated haptic feedback. The perception of optically and mechanically simulated bumps and holes was tested experimentally. In an earlier article, we have described the active cursor technique,...

Previous research on haptic object recognition has focused mainly on static objects and very little is understood about the role of dynamic information in haptic object recognition. In this study we examined if motion, particularly dynamic object parts,...

We examined how spatial disparity between the auditory and visual stimuli modulated the audio-visual (A-V) prior entry effect. Spatial and temporal proximity of multisensory stimuli are crucial factors for multisensory perception in most cases (e.g. [1],...