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A Preliminary Study on Full-Body Haptic Stimulation on Modulating Self-motion Perception in Virtual Reality

Authors:

Francesco Soave,

Nick Bryan-Kinns, and

Ildar FarkhatdinovAuthors Info & Claims

Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, and Computer Graphics: 7th International Conference, AVR 2020, Lecce, Italy, September 7–10, 2020, Proceedings, Part I

September 2020

Pages 461 - 469

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58465-8_34

Published: 07 September 2020 Publication History

Abstract

We introduce a novel experimental system to explore the role of vibrotactile haptic feedback in Virtual Reality (VR) to induce the self-motion illusion. Self-motion (also called vection) has been mostly studied through visual and auditory stimuli and a little is known how the illusion can be modulated by the addition of vibrotactile feedback. Our study focuses on whole-body haptic feedback in which the vibration is dynamically generated from the sound signal of the Virtual Environment (VE). We performed a preliminary study and found that audio and haptic modalities generally increase the intensity of vection over a visual only stimulus. We observe higher ratings of self-motion intensity when the vibrotactile stimulus is added to the virtual scene. We also analyzed data obtained with the igroup presence questionnaire (IPQ) which shows that haptic feedback has a general positive effect of presence in the virtual environment and a qualitative survey that revealed interesting and often overlooked aspects such as the implications of using a joystick to collect data in perception studies and in the concept of vection in relation to people’s experience and cognitive interpretation of self-motion.

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Cited By

Costes ALécuyer A(2023)Inducing Self-Motion Sensations With Haptic Feedback: State-of-The-Art and Perspectives on “Haptic Motion”IEEE Transactions on Haptics10.1109/TOH.2023.327926716:2(171-181)Online publication date: 1-Apr-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/TOH.2023.3279267
Soave FBryan-Kinns NFarkhatdinov I(2022)Designing Audio Feedback to Enhance Motion Perception in Virtual RealityHaptic and Audio Interaction Design10.1007/978-3-031-15019-7_9(92-101)Online publication date: 25-Aug-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-031-15019-7_9
Soave FPadma Kumar ABryan-Kinns NFarkhatdinov I(2021)Exploring Terminology for Perception of Motion in Virtual RealityProceedings of the 2021 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference10.1145/3461778.3462064(171-179)Online publication date: 28-Jun-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3461778.3462064

Index Terms

A Preliminary Study on Full-Body Haptic Stimulation on Modulating Self-motion Perception in Virtual Reality
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Computer graphics
    1. Graphics systems and interfaces
      1. Virtual reality
2. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction devices
      1. Haptic devices
    2. Interaction paradigms
      1. Mixed / augmented reality
      2. Virtual reality

Index terms have been assigned to the content through auto-classification.

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Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, and Computer Graphics: 7th International Conference, AVR 2020, Lecce, Italy, September 7–10, 2020, Proceedings, Part I

Sep 2020

488 pages

ISBN:978-3-030-58464-1

DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-58465-8

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University of Salento, Lecce, Italy
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University of Paris-Sud, Orsay, France

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Costes ALécuyer A(2023)Inducing Self-Motion Sensations With Haptic Feedback: State-of-The-Art and Perspectives on “Haptic Motion”IEEE Transactions on Haptics10.1109/TOH.2023.327926716:2(171-181)Online publication date: 1-Apr-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/TOH.2023.3279267
Soave FBryan-Kinns NFarkhatdinov I(2022)Designing Audio Feedback to Enhance Motion Perception in Virtual RealityHaptic and Audio Interaction Design10.1007/978-3-031-15019-7_9(92-101)Online publication date: 25-Aug-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-031-15019-7_9
Soave FPadma Kumar ABryan-Kinns NFarkhatdinov I(2021)Exploring Terminology for Perception of Motion in Virtual RealityProceedings of the 2021 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference10.1145/3461778.3462064(171-179)Online publication date: 28-Jun-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3461778.3462064

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