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HapticToolkit: easily integrate and control vibration motor arrays for wearables

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Jan Thar,

Florian Heller,

Sophy Stoenner,

Jan BorchersAuthors Info & Claims

ISWC '17: Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers

Pages 249 - 253

https://doi.org/10.1145/3123021.3123066

Published: 11 September 2017 Publication History

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Haptic input is a common input method for navigation aids for visual impaired people, leveraging an otherwise unused sensory channel depending on the body region, but building systems with large numbers of vibration motors is rather complex.

For this purpose we developed a system to easily and quickly build systems with largen numbers of vibration motors. With only low requirements on manual skills as well as tools, such wearables with huge numbers of vibration motors can be reproduced, e.g., at a local Fab Lab or Makerspace.

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Sean Benson. 2015. 3D Haptic Vest for Visually Impaired and Gamers. (August 2015). https://hackaday.io/seanbenson

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Dimitrios Dakopoulos, Sanjay K. Boddhu, and Nikolaos Bourbakis. 2007. A 2D vibration array as an assistive device for visually impaired. In Proc. of BIBE '07. IEEE, 930--937.

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Philipp Wacker, Chat Wacharamanotham, Daniel Spelmezan, Jan Thar, David A. Sánchez, René Bohne, and Jan Borchers. 2016. VibroVision: An On-Body Tactile Image Guide for the Blind. In Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '16). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 3788--3791.

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HapticToolkit: easily integrate and control vibration motor arrays for wearables
1. Hardware
  1. Communication hardware, interfaces and storage

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ISWC '17: Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers

September 2017

276 pages

ISBN:9781450351881

DOI:10.1145/3123021

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Seungyon "Claire" Lee
Google
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Leila Takayama
UC Santa Cruz
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Khai Truong
University of Toronto
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Intel Labs
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Thomas Ploetz
Georgia Tech

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Ku PHuang KWang NNg BChu AKao H(2023)SkinLinkProceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies10.1145/35962417:2(1-27)Online publication date: 12-Jun-2023
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