Georg Stevenson, Hrg. Andreas Riener, Alois Ferscha,
"TactiGlove - A Guidance System to Effectively find Hidden Spots in 3D Space"
: 4th International Conference on Mobile Computing, Applications
and Services (MobiCASE'12), October 10?12, 2012 Seattle,
Washington, US, Springer LNCIST, 10-2012
Original Titel:
TactiGlove - A Guidance System to Effectively find Hidden Spots in 3D Space
Sprache des Titels:
Englisch
Original Buchtitel:
4th International Conference on Mobile Computing, Applications
and Services (MobiCASE'12), October 10?12, 2012 Seattle,
Washington, US
Original Kurzfassung:
Research on vibrotactile navigation and guidance has been a topic
of broad interest for the HCI community for quite a while.
However, common to most of the presented approaches is a
'map-like' navigation to reach waypoints or targets in
two-dimensional contexts. Motivated by the need to simplify and
speed up searching tasks in maintenance, training or other
everyday situations, a prototype for a three-dimensional guidance
system, composed of a glove with integrated 6-DOF positioning
sensor technology and vibrotactile actuators, was developed. In
opposition to the formerly mentioned systems, the purpose of our
TactiGlove system is to guide persons to point-shaped,
maybe hidden locations in 3D space or annotated digital objects
that have been lost. In this paper we present the implemented
system in detail, focusing on hardware and software aspects as
well as on the different developed tactile feedback models.
System evaluation with a lab-based user study based on a Fitt's
law experiment for traditional UIs revealed that guidance by the
TactiGlove was intuitively understood by most of the
volunteers, although the system performance varied a lot between
the different feedback models. Preliminary results identified
much room for improvements and motivates to pursue research on
the TactiGlove.