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Evaluating Wrist-Based Haptic Feedback for Non-Visual Target Finding and Path Tracing on a 2D Surface

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Alisha Pradhan,

Jon E. Froehlich,

Leah FindlaterAuthors Info & Claims

ASSETS '17: Proceedings of the 19th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

Pages 210 - 219

https://doi.org/10.1145/3132525.3132538

Published: 19 October 2017 Publication History

Abstract

Precisely guiding a blind person's hand can be useful for a range of applications from tracing printed text to learning and understanding shapes and gestures. In this paper, we evaluate wrist-worn haptics as a directional hand guide. We implemented and evaluated the following haptic wristband variations: (1) four versus eight vibromotor designs; (2) vibration from only a single motor at a time versus from two adjacent motors using interpolation. To evaluate our designs, we conducted two studies: Study 1 (N=13, 2 blind) showed that participants could non-visually find targets and trace paths more quickly and accurately with single-motor feedback than with interpolated feedback, particularly when only four motors were used. Study 2 (N=14 blind or visually impaired participants) found that single-motor feedback with four motors was faster, more accurate, and most preferred compared to similar feedback with eight motors. We derive implications for the design of wrist-worn directional haptic feedback and discuss future work.

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ASSETS '17: Proceedings of the 19th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

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DOI:10.1145/3132525

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