Supporting Haptic Designers

Start Year:

2015

Haptic technology is increasingly becoming a critical and expected aspect of user experiences as seen in the rapid progression towards blended physical-digital interfaces. However, the exact design challenges involved in creating effective haptic experiences are relatively unknown.

In this project, we present a series of studies that aims to capture these challenges and to create solutions such as tools that could alleviate the various challenges involved in haptic experience design.

Our goal is to create a set of tools, guidelines, and other design process solutions that will help hapticians of any skill level, whether they be industry or novices.

SPIN People:

Non Spin people:

Colin Gallacher

Publications:

Chun, M., "Comparing haptic application design communities : characterizing differences and similarities for future design knowledge sharing." M.Sc. Thesis. University of British Columbia, 2020

MacLean, K. E., Schneider, O., Weill, A., Levesque, V., Irani, P., & Cooperstock, J. R. (2021, July). "CanHap 501: Learning haptic UX design in remote teams." In 2021 IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC) (pp. 348-348). IEEE.

Seifi, H., Chun, M., Gallacher, C., Schneider, O.S., MacLean, K.E. "How Do Novice Hapticians Design? A Case Study in Creating Haptic Learning Environments" in IEEE Transactions on Haptics, 2020, pp. 1-15.

Seifi, H., MacLean, K. E., Kuchenbecher, K. J., and Park, G., “Haptipedia: An Expert-Sourced Interactive Device Visualization for Haptic Designers,” In Haptics Symposium (HAPTICS), Works in Progress: IEEE, 2018.