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A Vibrotactile Display for Hand-held Devices and Its Preferable Pattern Generation Method

모바일 기기를 위한 진동촉각 디스플레이와 선호하는 패턴 생성방법

  • Yang, Gi-Hun (Robotics R&BD Group, Korea Institute of Industrial Technology) ;
  • Jin, Yeonsub (Center for Bionics, Korea Institute of Science and Technology) ;
  • Kang, Sungchul (Center for Bionics, Korea Institute of Science and Technology)
  • 양기훈 (한국생산기술연구원 로봇연구실용화그룹) ;
  • 진연섭 (한국과학기술연구원 바이오닉스연구단) ;
  • 강성철 (한국과학기술연구원 바이오닉스연구단)
  • Received : 2014.06.02
  • Accepted : 2014.06.30
  • Published : 2014.08.01
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Abstract

In this paper, a vibrotactile pad system, T-mobile, is developed to provide vibrotactile cues for hand-held devices. A grooved and slim design is adapted to the back-side plane of the T-mobile, and the contact part consists of 12 vibrotactile panels which can operate independently and separately. To be isolated among vibrotactile actuators, the surface of the cover is divided into several pieces. Each vibrating module consists of a linear resonant actuator, a section of covering surface, and a vibration isolator. In order to provide spatial and directional information, sensory saltation and phantom sensation are applied to the T-mobile. To evaluate the developed device, two experiments were conducted to test whether directional information and spatial information can be successfully displayed by the device. Additionally, in order to find optimal stimulation by sensory saltation, an empirical test was conducted. As a result, spatial and directional information would be useful for displaying intuitive information for hand-held devices with vibrotactile feedback and reasonable near-optimal value for sensory saltation was obtained.

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