A New Systematic Vibrotactile Rendering for Touchscreen Mobile Devices

Abstract EN

This paper proposes visuotactile primitives with vibrotactile properties for a more systematic haptic representation of virtual objects in touchscreen mobile devices.

We define a DOT, a LINE, and a SURFACE as tactile symbols of hitting a small bump, flicking a string, and rubbing a textured surface, respectively.

The combination of the proposed primitives induces a more efficient design process for providing various tactile properties of virtual objects to a user.

We did experiments to evaluate whether the proposed method haptically represents virtual objects.

The results show that the proposed visuotactile primitives can be applied to the haptic representation of graphical objects.