Development and Evaluation of a Device that Uses Temperature Stimulation to Present the Sensation of Being Shot

Abstract

There is research on new sensory interfaces that can be felt with the body to enhance the experience of interactive content. One of them is a device that gives force feedback to the player's whole body through vibration stimulation when the player is hit by a bullet in a game. However, it is difficult to reproduce more realistic sensation of being hit by a bullet with a single feedback by vibration stimulus. In this research, we investigated the sensation of being hit by a bullet and focused on the bleeding. Then we developed the HaT Vest (Haptic and Thermal Vest), which presents the sensation of being shot by thermal stimuli and is linked to the game. As a result of the evaluation experiment, it was found that this method can present the sensation of bleeding at the point of being shot.