extended-abstract

Public Access

EMS icons: conveying information by analogy to enhance communication through electrical muscle stimulation

Authors:

Tilman Dingler,

Takashi Goto,

Benjamin Tag,

Kai KunzeAuthors Info & Claims

UbiComp '17: Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers

Pages 732 - 739

https://doi.org/10.1145/3123024.3129275

Published: 11 September 2017 Publication History

PDF eReader

Abstract

Electrical Muscle Stimulation (EMS) has recently received an increased amount of attention from the HCI community. It has been used to remote control users for navigation and instrument playing, but also as a method to convey haptic feedback in VR, for example. As EMS devices become commercially available and application research continues, we explore EMS as a modality to convey information through actuation and as a means to induce and communicate emotions and moods. In this position paper, we present the results from two focus groups on using EMS for interpersonal communication as a way to send and receive emoticons through electrical stimulation. We argue that so-called "EMS Icons" have the potential to become part of multimedia experiences and more broadly of User Interfaces as a haptic variant in analogy to visual and auditory icons.

References

[1]

Dana R. Carney, Amy J.C. Cuddy, and Andy J. Yap. 2010. Power Posing. Psychological Science 21, 10 (2010), 1363--1368.

Crossref

Google Scholar

[2]

Paul Ekman. 1992. An argument for basic emotions. Cognition & emotion 6, 3-4 (1992), 169--200.

Google Scholar

[3]

William W. Gaver. 1986. Auditory Icons: Using Sound in Computer Interfaces. Hum.-Comput. Interact. 2, 2 (June 1986), 167--177.

Digital Library

Google Scholar

[4]

Mariam Hassib, Max Pfeiffer, Stefan Schneegass, Michael Rohs, and Florian Alt. 2017. Emotion Actuator: Embodied Emotional Feedback Through Electroencephalography and Electrical Muscle Stimulation. In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 6133--6146.

Digital Library

Google Scholar

[5]

Pedro Lopes, Sijing You, Lung-Pan Cheng, Sebastian Marwecki, and Patrick Baudisch. 2017. Providing Haptics to Walls & Heavy Objects in Virtual Reality by Means of Electrical Muscle Stimulation. In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI. ACM, 1471--1482.

Digital Library

Google Scholar

[6]

Pedro Lopes, Doăa Yüksel, François Guimbretiere, and Patrick Baudisch. 2016. Muscle-plotter: An interactive system based on electrical muscle stimulation that produces spatial output. In Proceedings of the 29th UIST. ACM, 207--217.

Digital Library

Google Scholar

[7]

Xuan Lu, Wei Ai, Xuanzhe Liu, Qian Li, Ning Wang, Gang Huang, and Qiaozhu Mei. 2016. Learning from the Ubiquitous Language: An Empirical Analysis of Emoji Usage of Smartphone Users. In Proceedings of the 2016 ACM UbiComp (UbiComp '16). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 770--780.

Digital Library

Google Scholar

[8]

Karon MacLean and Mario Enriquez. 2003. Perceptual design of haptic icons. In Proc. of EuroHaptics. 351--363.

Google Scholar

[9]

Max Pfeiffer, Tim Dünte, Stefan Schneegass, Florian Alt, and Michael Rohs. 2015. Cruise control for pedestrians: Controlling walking direction using electrical muscle stimulation. In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual CHI. ACM, 2505--2514.

Digital Library

Google Scholar

[10]

Stefan Schneegass and Rufat Rzayev. 2016. Embodied notifications: Implicit notifications through electrical muscle stimulation. In Proceedings of the 18th HCI. ACM, 954--959.

Digital Library

Google Scholar

[11]

Emi Tamaki, Takashi Miyaki, and Jun Rekimoto. 2011. PossessedHand: techniques for controlling human hands using electrical muscles stimuli. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI. ACM, 543--552.

Digital Library

Google Scholar

[12]

Channary Tauch and Eiman Kanjo. 2016. The Roles of Emojis in Mobile Phone Notifications. In Proceedings of the 2016 ACM UbiComp: Adjunct (UbiComp '16). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1560--1565.

Digital Library

Google Scholar

[13]

Lai Yen-Chin, YuanLing Feng, Kai Kunze, Junich Shimizu, and Takuro Nakao. 2017. Eyewear to Make Me Smile: Can Electric Muscle Stimulation increase Happiness?. In Proceedings of the TEI. ACM, 579--582.

Digital Library

Google Scholar

[14]

José Zariffa, Sander L. Hitzig, and Milos R. Popovic. 2014. Neuromodulation of emotion using functional electrical stimulation applied to facial muscles. Neuromodulation 17, 1 (2014), 85--92.

Crossref

Google Scholar

Cited By

View all

Vatavu R(2023)iFAD Gestures: Understanding Users’ Gesture Input Performance with Index-Finger Augmentation DevicesProceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3544548.3580928(1-17)Online publication date: 19-Apr-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3544548.3580928
Faltaous SKoelle MSchneegass S(2022)From Perception to Action: A Review and Taxonomy on Electrical Muscle Stimulation in HCIProceedings of the 21st International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia10.1145/3568444.3568460(159-171)Online publication date: 27-Nov-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3568444.3568460
Ertay EHuang HSarsenbayeva ZDingler T(2021)Challenges of Emotion Detection Using Facial Expressions and Emotion Visualisation in Remote CommunicationAdjunct Proceedings of the 2021 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2021 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers10.1145/3460418.3479341(230-236)Online publication date: 21-Sep-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3460418.3479341

Index Terms

EMS icons: conveying information by analogy to enhance communication through electrical muscle stimulation
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)

Recommendations

The communicative role of non-face emojis

Emojis have evolved from imitations of facial expressions meant to communicate affect into pictures of objects, food, and places that are not directly linked to affect. While emojis that resemble facial expressions are well-researched, emojis that ...
The Interplay Between Emojis and Linguistic Text
Chinese Lexical Semantics
Abstract
This paper examines the interplay between emojis and the accompanying linguistic text when the two channels disagree with each other. In general, emojis are typically regarded as an explicit way to convey a specific emotion. However, it is ...
EMS Painter: Co-creating Visual Art using Electrical Muscle Stimulation
TEI '18: Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction

We present a work in progress, enabling an audience to influence a painter, through electrical muscle stimulation (EMS) to co-create visual art works. Two sets of EMS pads are positioned on the painter's arm such that stimulation pulses, triggered on a ...

Comments

Information & Contributors

Information

Published In

UbiComp '17: Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers

September 2017

1089 pages

ISBN:9781450351904

DOI:10.1145/3123024

General Chairs:
Seungyon "Claire" Lee
Google
,
Leila Takayama
UC Santa Cruz
,
Khai Truong
University of Toronto

Permission to make digital or hard copies of part or all of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for third-party components of this work must be honored. For all other uses, contact the Owner/Author.

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery

New York, NY, United States

Publication History

Published: 11 September 2017

Check for updates

Author Tags

Qualifiers

Extended-abstract

Funding Sources

Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology

Conference

UbiComp '17

Sponsor:

UbiComp '17: The 2017 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing

September 11 - 15, 2017

Hawaii, Maui

Acceptance Rates

Overall Acceptance Rate 764 of 2,912 submissions, 26%

Upcoming Conference

Contributors

Other Metrics

View Article Metrics

Bibliometrics & Citations

Bibliometrics

Article Metrics

3
Total Citations
View Citations
526
Total Downloads

Downloads (Last 12 months)112
Downloads (Last 6 weeks)20

Reflects downloads up to 25 Feb 2025

Other Metrics

View Author Metrics

Citations

Cited By

View all

Vatavu R(2023)iFAD Gestures: Understanding Users’ Gesture Input Performance with Index-Finger Augmentation DevicesProceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3544548.3580928(1-17)Online publication date: 19-Apr-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3544548.3580928
Faltaous SKoelle MSchneegass S(2022)From Perception to Action: A Review and Taxonomy on Electrical Muscle Stimulation in HCIProceedings of the 21st International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia10.1145/3568444.3568460(159-171)Online publication date: 27-Nov-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3568444.3568460
Ertay EHuang HSarsenbayeva ZDingler T(2021)Challenges of Emotion Detection Using Facial Expressions and Emotion Visualisation in Remote CommunicationAdjunct Proceedings of the 2021 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2021 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers10.1145/3460418.3479341(230-236)Online publication date: 21-Sep-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3460418.3479341

View Options

View options

PDF

View or Download as a PDF file.

PDF

eReader

View online with eReader.

eReader

Login options

Check if you have access through your login credentials or your institution to get full access on this article.

Cited By

Index Terms

Recommendations

The communicative role of non-face emojis

The Interplay Between Emojis and Linguistic Text

EMS Painter: Co-creating Visual Art using Electrical Muscle Stimulation