Haptic Socks
Ahmed, Fahad (2015)
2015
Vuorovaikutteinen teknologia - Interactive Technology
Informaatiotieteiden yksikkö - School of Information Sciences
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Hyväksymispäivämäärä
2015-06-04
Julkaisun pysyvä osoite on
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:uta-201507012007
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:uta-201507012007
Tiivistelmä
Smart phones have been spreading faster than any other technologies and with them, the research for finding different alternate interaction techniques that will be quick and efficiently responsive. The best feedback response in terms of mobile usage has been a long debate and is actually not possible, so it is difficult to conclude which feedback will be effective in all environments.
In navigation applications, two modalities are used as feedback; visual and auditory. This thesis presents work, experiments and results on implementing the third modality i.e. haptic feedback.
The basic purpose of this work is to find out how effective wearable haptic feedback can be, than visual or auditory feedback in terms of navigation. Using hand-held GPS navigation while walking or driving a car can sometimes be dangerous if the user is focusing more on the device than on the roads.
The concept of Haptic Socks can be used as a secondary interaction technique for navigation so that user can use other interaction techniques to perform their primary tasks or perform their daily life routine work. Haptic socks will consist of actuators embedded in a certain position of human foot that will give tactile feedback, helping the user in turn by turn navigation. The device can most probably be the user’s smartphone. Haptic Socks will use wireless connection with the device which in this research study will be Bluetooth.
Furthermore, if the feedback results are positive then it will be easier to discuss how effective it can be made for people who are deaf-blind.
In navigation applications, two modalities are used as feedback; visual and auditory. This thesis presents work, experiments and results on implementing the third modality i.e. haptic feedback.
The basic purpose of this work is to find out how effective wearable haptic feedback can be, than visual or auditory feedback in terms of navigation. Using hand-held GPS navigation while walking or driving a car can sometimes be dangerous if the user is focusing more on the device than on the roads.
The concept of Haptic Socks can be used as a secondary interaction technique for navigation so that user can use other interaction techniques to perform their primary tasks or perform their daily life routine work. Haptic socks will consist of actuators embedded in a certain position of human foot that will give tactile feedback, helping the user in turn by turn navigation. The device can most probably be the user’s smartphone. Haptic Socks will use wireless connection with the device which in this research study will be Bluetooth.
Furthermore, if the feedback results are positive then it will be easier to discuss how effective it can be made for people who are deaf-blind.