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Investigation into the feasibility of using tactons to provide navigation cues in pedestrian situations

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Current navigation services do not meet the needs of pedestrians. The displays are often inappropriate. In this paper, we report two experiments to investigate whether using tactile display to present navigation information is sufficient and appropriate in pedestrian situation. The result of those experiments showed that Tactons could be a successful means of communicating navigation information in user interfaces in pedestrian situations.

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      OZCHI '08: Proceedings of the 20th Australasian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction: Designing for Habitus and Habitat
      December 2008
      366 pages
      ISBN:0980306345
      DOI:10.1145/1517744

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