Talking About Tactile Experiences

Marianna Obrist; Sue Ann Seah; Sriram Subramanian

doi:10.1145/2470654.2466220

Talking About Tactile Experiences

Marianna Obrist, Sue Ann Seah, Sriram Subramanian

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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. Here we present the findings from a study exploring participants' verbalizations of their tactile experiences across two modulated tactile stimuli (16Hz and 250Hz) related to two important mechanoreceptors in the human hand. The study, with 14 participants, applied the explicitation interview technique to capture detailed descriptions of the diachronic and synchronic structure of tactile experiences. We propose 14 categories for a human-experiential vocabulary based on the categorization of the findings and tie them back to neurophysiological and psychophysical data on the human hand. We finally discuss design opportunities created through this experiential understanding in relation to the two mechanoreceptors.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Place of Publication	New York, NY, USA
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	1659-1668
Number of pages	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2470654.2466220
Publication status	Published - 2013

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Name	CHI '13
Publisher	ACM

Keywords

explicitation interview technique, human hand, human-experiential vocabulary, mechanoreceptors, non-contact haptic system, tactile experiences, ultrasound, user study

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Subramanian, S.
1/02/12 → 1/02/15
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Talking About Tactile Experiences. / Obrist, Marianna; Seah, Sue Ann; Subramanian, Sriram.
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2013. p. 1659-1668 (CHI '13).

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