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Guiding Tourists through Haptic Interaction: Vibration Feedback in the Lund Time Machine

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Author

Editor

  • Poika Isokoski
  • Jukka Springare

Summary, in English

This paper describes the vibrationnal feedback that was chosen for the guiding interaction part of the Lund Time Machine application. This tourist guide provides information on points of interests along a trail, and guides the user along it. The interface uses audio and tactile modalities to be accessible in situations where the visual channel is not available. To navigate to the next goal, the user scans around and feels the phone vibrating in the correct direction. The distance coding was embedded in the directional feedback by making the bursts more frequent when getting closer to the goal. The design was first evaluated in a controlled study and then validated as usable and non-obtrusive within an evaluation in the real context of use.

Publishing year

2012

Language

English

Pages

157-162

Publication/Series

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Volume

7283

Document type

Conference paper

Publisher

Springer

Topic

  • Human Computer Interaction

Conference name

Haptics: Perception, Devices, Mobility, and Communication 8th International Conference, EuroHaptics 2012

Conference date

2012-06-12 - 2012-06-15

Conference place

Tampere, Finland

Status

Published

Project

  • HaptiMap - Haptic, Audio and Visual Interfaces for Maps and Location Based Services

Research group

  • Audio-Haptic Interactive Design

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0302-9743
  • ISSN: 1611-3349
  • ISBN: 978-3-642-31403-2