Publication Details
| Max Pfeiffer, Stefan Schneegass, Florian Alt, Michael Rohs
A Design Space for Electrical Muscle Stimulation Feedback for Freehand Interaction In Assistive Augmentation '14: Proceedings of the First CHI Workshop on Assistive Augmentation. Toronto, Canada, April 26 - May 1, 2014. (bib) |
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| Free-hand interaction becomes a common technique for interacting with large displays. At the same time, providing haptic feedback for free-hand interaction is still a challenge, particularly feedback with different characteristics (i.e., strengths, patterns) to convey particular information. We see electrical muscle stimulation (EMS) as a well-suited technology for providing haptic feedback in this domain. The characteristics of EMS can be used to assist users in learning, manipulating, and perceiving virtual objects. One of the core challenges is to understand these characteristics and how they can be applied. As a step in this direction, this paper presents a design space that identifies different aspects of using EMS for haptic feedback. The design space is meant as a basis for future research investigating how particular characteristics can be exploited to provide specific haptic feedback. |
