Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : June 06, 2021 - June 08, 2021
While there are many papers that focuses on transmitting location information such as distance and direction information of a single object using wearable vibrotactile devices, there are none that focuses on transmitting location information of multiple objects. In this paper, we conducted experiments to find out whether humans can understand and recognize information of the number of multiple moving objects (1～4) transmitted via vibrotactile stimulation. To do so, we built a vibrotactile waist belt and constructed an algorithm that changes vibration amplitude depending on the distance and direction of the target objects. As a result, we found that by using our method, participants have the tendency to be able to understand up to 3 moving objects.
