Handheld haptics with a lateral skin-stretch tactile display
by Joseph Luk (SPIN Lab)
and Jerome Pasquero (Haptics Lab, Centre for Intelligent Machines at McGill
University)
Abstract:
Haptics -- interaction through the sense of touch -- shows considerable promise
as a user interface modality in mobile and handheld applications, because of its
personal, intimate nature, and because of limited bandwidth in the visual and
auditory modalities. At the same time, mobile use requires minimization of size,
weight, and power consumption, which has presented significant challenges for
mobile haptics. In this talk we will introduce some of the latest work on haptic
devices from the Haptic Lab at McGill, and cover a collaborative project with
UBC's SPIN lab that uses a lightweight, piezoelectrically actuated tactile
display to explore user interface possibilities with haptics in a mobile device.