Surround Haptics: Sending Shivers Down Your Spine

Israr, Ali; Poupyrev, Ivan; Ioffreda, Chris; Cox, Jim; Gouveia, Nathan; Bowles, Huw; Brakis, Anastasios; Knight, Baylor; Mitchell, Kenny; Williams, Tom

Abstract

Surround Haptics is a new tactile technology that uses a low-resolution grid of inexpensive vibrating actuators to generate high-resolution, continuous, moving tactile strokes on human skin [1]. The user would not feel the discrete tactile pulses and buzzes that are so common today, but rather a smooth tactile motion, akin to what we feel when someone drags a finger across our skin.

• Conference Name: SIGGRAPH '11
• Start Date: Nov 7, 2011
• End Date: Nov 11, 2011
• Publication Date: 2011
• Deposit Date: Aug 1, 2016
• Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Pages: 14:1-14:1
• Series Title: SIGGRAPH '11
• Book Title: ACM SIGGRAPH 2011 Emerging Technologies
• ISBN: 978-1-4503-0969-1
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2048259.2048273
• Keywords: Surround Haptics, vibrating actuators, tactile strokes, smooth tactile motion,
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/321856
• Publisher URL: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2048259.2048273