抄録
With the fast spreading of mobile devices, especially smartphones, they are usually brought and used during going out because they are very useful. However, they cause some problems such as texting while walking(TWW). For example, when visiting a place for the first time by walking, some navigations, such like the Google Map are needed. Then, it is necessary to keep looking at the mobile device when walking to the target place. Nowadays, the TWW problem has become worldwide. According to this problem, many persons crash or fall down, even fatal-accidents occur in some cases. In this paper, it is attempted to develop an information transmission system. The system transmits information by stimulating the user’s foot soles. Therefore, users can obtain simple information without looking at the monitor of a mobile device during walking or operating. Therefore, it is considered that this system is able to be used for navigation without TWW. A prototype system was constructed and an experiment to transmit literal information by this system was conducted. The speed of transmission and the accuracy of the system is not high, however, it was confirmed that information can be transmitted by this system.
