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Design of a bilateral vibrotactile feedback system for lateralization

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ASSETS '11: The proceedings of the 13th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2049536.2049583

Published: 24 October 2011 Publication History

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We present a bilateral vibrotactile feedback system for accurate lateralization of target angles in the complete 360 degree-range. We envision integrating this system into context-aware hearing instruments (HIs) or cochlear implants (CIs) to support users that experience lateralization difficulties. As a foundation for this it is vital to investigate which kind of feedback and vibration patterns are optimal to provide support for lateralization. Our system enables to evaluate and compare different encoding schemes with respect to resolution, reaction time, intuitiveness and user dependency. The system supports bilateral vibrotactile feedback to reflect integration into HIs or CIs worn at both ears and implemented two approaches: Quantized Absolute Heading (QAH) and Continuous Guidance Feedback (CGF). We provide a detailed description of our hardware that was designed to be also applicable for generic vibrotactile feedback applications.

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Tessendorf BRoggen DSpuhler MStiefmeier TTröster GGrämer TDerleth PFeilner MLiu YJafari RLu C(2011)Bilateral vibrotactile feedback patterns for accurate lateralization in hearing instrument body area networksProceedings of the 6th International Conference on Body Area Networks10.5555/2318776.2318802(107-113)Online publication date: 7-Nov-2011
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Design of a bilateral vibrotactile feedback system for lateralization
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction devices
      1. Haptic devices

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ASSETS '11: The proceedings of the 13th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility

October 2011

348 pages

ISBN:9781450309202

DOI:10.1145/2049536

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Kathleen F. McCoy
University of Delaware, USA
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Yeliz Yesilada
Middle East Technical University Northern Cyprus Campus, Cyprus

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Tessendorf BRoggen DSpuhler MStiefmeier TTröster GGrämer TDerleth PFeilner MLiu YJafari RLu C(2011)Bilateral vibrotactile feedback patterns for accurate lateralization in hearing instrument body area networksProceedings of the 6th International Conference on Body Area Networks10.5555/2318776.2318802(107-113)Online publication date: 7-Nov-2011
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