Tactile Experiences

Talking About Tactile Experiences

Abstract

A common problem with designing and developing applications with tactile interfaces is the lack of a vocabulary that allows one to describe or communicate about haptics. In this paper we present 14 categories for a human-experiential vocabulary (H-E-Vocabulary) based on findings from a user study using the explicitation interview technique. The H-E-Vocabulary is tied back to neurophysiological and psychophysical data on the human hand and is illustrated with example design implications for haptic systems.

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Marianna Obrist, Sue Ann Seah, and Sriram Subramanian. Talking about tactile experiences. Proceedings of ACM CHI 2013 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Paris, France. 2014. pp 1659-1668.[PDF, 1.6MB]

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