Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science (대한안전경영과학회지)

Korea Safety Management & Science (대한안전경영과학회)
권호 표지
DOI QR코드

DOI QR Code

A Study on Designing Haptic Icons to support Informative Communications for Navigation

스테레오타입 분석을 통한 방향정보 전달용 햅틱 아이콘 설계

  • Kim, Sang-Ho (School of Industrial Engineering, Kumoh National Institute of Technology)
  • 김상호 (금오공과대학교 산업공학부)
  • Received : 2013.01.20
  • Accepted : 2013.03.12
  • Published : 2013.03.31
Download PDF
⟨ Previous Next ⟩

Abstract

In this paper, the learnability of haptic icons was tested as a way of conveying turn-by-turn directions to users involved in navigation interactions with commercial smartphones. To do this, six most distinctive haptic icons were identified from those having different duration of each pulse, interval between pulses, and rhythm. Associations between the selected haptic icons and 3 pairs of navigation directions were analyzed using data gathered from 30 subjects by 7 point Likert scale. The haptic icons were then assigned to proper directions based on the results from that stereotype analysis. The results showed that the commercial smartphone with one linear motor at a fixed location is not capable of making hapticons to have clear directional stereotypes. The hapticons with poor stereotypes has no advantage in learnability compared to those of random assignment.

Keywords

References

  1. "Survey on the Smartphone Use in the 1st half of 2012", Korea Internet & Security Agency, 2012
  2. Kyung, K.U. and Park, J.S.,"The State of the Art and R&D Perceptives on Hapics", Electronics and telecommunications trends, 21(5), pp. 94-98, 2006.
  3. Kim, S.H. and Kim, J.S., "Guidelines for Designing Earcons to Deliver Process Control Information using its Semantic Association", Journal of the Korea safety management & science 13(1), pp. 81-89, 2011.
  4. Kim, S.H. and Park, K.S., "A Study on Color Associations of the Korean for Color Coding of Process Control Information", Journal of the Korea safety management & science 6(1), pp. 187-199, 2004.
  5. Sohn, M.S., Shin, H.S., Park, J.S. and Han, D.W., "Trends of Haptic Interface for Wearable Computers", Electronics and telecommunications trends 20(5), pp. 150-153, 2005.
  6. Lee, S.Y., "Korea Counts over 30 Million Smartphone Users", The financial news, 2012-08 -27.
  7. Chan A., MacLean K., and McGrenere J., "Designing haptic icons to support collaborative turn-taking", Int. J. Human-Computer Studies 66, pp. 333-355, 2008. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2007.11.002
  8. Enriquiz, M. and MacLean, K.E., "The role of choice in longitudinal recall of meaningful symbols", In Proceedings of IEEE Haptics Symposium, 2008.
  9. Jacob, R., Winstanley, A., Togher, N., Roche, R., and Mooney, P., "Pedestrian navigation using sense of touch", Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 36, pp. 513-525, 2012. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2012.10.001
  10. Kuber, R. and Yu, W., "Feasibility study of tactile-based authentication", Int. J. Human- Computer Studies 68, pp. 158-181, 2010. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2009.11.001
  11. MacLean, K.E., "Using haptics for mobile information display", In Proceedings of Pervasive Mobile Interaction Devices (PERMID 2008) pp. 175-179, 2008.
  12. Meera M. Blattner, Denise A. Sumikawa, and Robert M. Greenberg, "Earcons and Icons: Their Structure and Common Design Principles", Human-Computer Interactions 4, pp. 11-44, 1989. https://doi.org/10.1207/s15327051hci0401_1
  13. Pielot M. and Boll, S., "Tactile Wayfinder: comparison of tactile waypoint navigation with commercial pedestrian navigation systems", In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Pervasive Computing, 2010.
  14. Pirtela, T., "Alternatives to map-based pedestrian navigation with location-aware mobile devices", Unpublished Thesis, TAMK University of Applied Sciences, Finland, 2009.
  15. Qian, H., Kuber R., and Sears, A., "Towards developing perceivable tactile feedback for mobile devices", Int. J. Human-Computer Studies 69, pp. 705-719, 2011. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2011.06.003
  16. Robinson, S., Jones, M., Eslambolchilar, P., Murray-Smith, R. and Lindborg, M., "I did it my way: moving away from the tyranny of turn-by-turn pedestrian navigation", In Proceedings of International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, ACM Press, NY, 2010.
  17. Shieh, M.D. and Wu, Z.B., "Tactile icon design using a vibration actuator in mobile devices", In Computer-Human Interaction Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 5068, Springer-Verlag, pp. 240-247, 2008.
  18. Van Erp, J.B.F., "Presenting directions with a vibro-tactile torso display", Ergonomics 48(3), pp. 302-313, 2005. https://doi.org/10.1080/0014013042000327670
  19. Van Erp, J.B.F., "Tactile navigation display", In Brewster, S.A., Murray-Smith, R. (Eds.), Haptic Human-Computer Interaction. Lecture notes in Computer Science, 2058. Springer, pp. 165-173, 2001.

Cited by

  1. A Study on Semantic Association between Transmitted Information and Design Parameters of Vibrotactile Signals vol.32, pp.4, 2013, https://doi.org/10.5143/JESK.2013.32.4.371