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Sparkle: Towards Haptic Hover-Feedback with Electric Arcs

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Daniel Spelmezan,

Deepak Ranjan Sahoo,

Sriram SubramanianAuthors Info & Claims

UIST '16 Adjunct: Adjunct Proceedings of the 29th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

Pages 55 - 57

https://doi.org/10.1145/2984751.2985702

Published: 16 October 2016 Publication History

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We demonstrate a method for stimulating the fingertip with touchable electric arcs above a hover sensing input device. We built a hardware platform using a high-voltage resonant transformer for which we control the electric discharge to create in-air haptic feedback up to 4 mm in height, and combined this technology with infrared proximity sensing. Our method is a first step towards supporting novel in-air haptic experiences for hover input that does not require the user to wear haptic feedback stimulators.

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Sparkle: Towards Haptic Hover-Feedback with Electric Arcs
1. Hardware
  1. Communication hardware, interfaces and storage
    1. Sensors and actuators
    2. Tactile and hand-based interfaces
      1. Haptic devices
2. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)

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UIST '16 Adjunct: Adjunct Proceedings of the 29th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

October 2016

244 pages

ISBN:9781450345316

DOI:10.1145/2984751

General Chairs:
Jun Rekimoto
The University of Tokyo
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The University of Tokyo
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University of Washington
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