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Vibrotactile feedback has been receiving increasing attention as an effective modality to draw the user’s attention to an urgent situation. The current study examines the effects of alert duration and envelope on perceived urgency, annoyance, and acceptance using a dual-task condition. Participants are instructed to complete a simple arithmetic task (primary) during which the vibrotactile alert (secondary) is provided via a wristband attached to the non-dominant hand. Experiment 1 investigates the effects of the alert duration and found that an alert duration of 1,950 ms significantly increases the perceived urgency and acceptance, while significantly decreasing annoyance. Experiment 2 compares three vibration envelope patterns (constant, increasing, and decreasing intensity) and found that a constant vibration intensity of 2.25g significantly increases the perceived urgency without significantly changing the perceived annoyance and acceptance. These findings inspire the development of vibrotactile alert systems.
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Elsaid, A., Park, W., Ha, S., Song, YA., Eid, M. (2023). Effects of Duration and Envelope of Vibrotactile Alerts on Urgency, Annoyance, and Acceptance. In: Wang, D., et al. Haptic Interaction. AsiaHaptics 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14063. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-46839-1_1
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