Low-fi skin vision: A case study in rapid prototyping a Sensory Substitution system

Jon Bird; Paul Marshall; Yvonne Rogers

Low-fi skin vision: A case study in rapid prototyping a Sensory Substitution system

Jon Bird^*, Paul Marshall, Yvonne Rogers

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Abstract

We describe the design process we have used to develop a minimal, twenty vibration motor Tactile Vision Sensory Substitution (TVSS) system which enables blind-folded subjects to successfully track and bat a rolling ball and thereby experience 'skin vision'. We have employed a low-fi rapid prototyping approach to build this system and argue that this methodology is particularly effective for building embedded interactive systems. We support this argument in two ways. First, by drawing on theoretical insights from robotics, a discipline that also has to deal with the challenge of building complex embedded systems that interact with their environments; second, by using the development of our TVSS as a case study: describing the series of prototypes that led to our successful design and highlighting what we learnt at each stage.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	People and Computers XXIII Celebrating People and Technology - Proceedings of HCI 2009
Pages	55-64
Number of pages	10
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2009
Event	23rd Annual Conference on Human Computer Interaction, HCI 2009 - Cambridge, United Kingdom Duration: 1 Sept 2009 → 5 Sept 2009

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Conference	23rd Annual Conference on Human Computer Interaction, HCI 2009
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Cambridge
Period	1/09/09 → 5/09/09

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Bristol Interaction Group

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Embedded systems
Low-fi rapid prototyping
Tactile Vision Sensory Substitution
TVSS

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