Active Haptic Feedback for a Virtual Wrist-Anchored User Interface

Authors. Jan Ulrich Bartels, Natalia Sanchez-Tamayo, Michael Sedlmair, Katherine J. Kuchenbecker

Venue. UIST Adjunct (2024)

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Abstract. The presented system combines a virtual wrist-anchored user interface (UI) with a new low-profile, wrist-worn device that provides salient and expressive haptic feedback such as contact, pressure and broad-bandwidth vibration. This active feedback is used to add tactile cues to interactions with virtual mid-air UI elements that track the user’s wrist; we demonstrate a simple menu-interaction task to showcase the utility of haptics for interactions with virtual buttons and sliders. Moving forward, we intend to use this platform to develop haptic guidelines for body-anchored interfaces and test multiple haptic devices across the body to create engaging interactions.

@inproceedings{10.1145/3672539.3686765,
    title        = {Active Haptic Feedback for a Virtual Wrist-Anchored User Interface},
    author       = {Bartels, Jan Ulrich and Sanchez-Tamayo, Natalia and Sedlmair, Michael and Kuchenbecker, Katherine J.},
    year         = {2024},
    booktitle    = {Adjunct Proceedings of the 37th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology},
    publisher    = {Association for Computing Machinery},
    series       = {UIST Adjunct '24},
    doi          = {10.1145/3672539.3686765},
    url          = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3672539.3686765},
    abstract     = {The presented system combines a virtual wrist-anchored user interface (UI) with a new low-profile, wrist-worn device that provides salient and expressive haptic feedback such as contact, pressure and broad-bandwidth vibration. This active feedback is used to add tactile cues to interactions with virtual mid-air UI elements that track the user's wrist; we demonstrate a simple menu-interaction task to showcase the utility of haptics for interactions with virtual buttons and sliders. Moving forward, we intend to use this platform to develop haptic guidelines for body-anchored interfaces and test multiple haptic devices across the body to create engaging interactions.},
    articleno    = {53},
    numpages     = {3},
    keywords     = {body anchored interfaces, haptic interfaces, human computer interaction, virtual reality}
}