Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : June 08, 2016 - June 11, 2016
We have developed a system that provides tactile stimuli by controlling the water flow of the shower to enrich the music experience in the bathroom. User studies have revealed that the music experience while taking a shower was enhanced, particularly when the music has characteristic beats or melody. However, the previous system can simply switch between ON and OFF, and sophisticated tactile expression was not possible. In this paper, we made a new shower type tactile stimulation device by controlling the water flow of the shower in an analog manner. We evaluated the performance of our prototype both physically and perceptually, by measuring pressure and discrimination threshold of the flow rate by the shower.
