VibroSquare: Vibro-Tactile Display for Body-Centric Implicit Interactions

Abstract

Importance of touch cannot be underestimated. Touch is the first sense that a human develops already in a womb and the last sense that one loses with age. Touch can serve as a powerful modality for developing novel human-computer interfaces. We present VibroSquare - our first vibro-tactile display we designed to enable first set of experiments to test our research assumptions. During the experiments we will explore how vibro-tactile feedback can be communicated on an unconscious (implicit) level of perception. The objective of the demonstration is to offer first hand experience of the interaction with VibroSquare and create conversations around designing technologies for supporting body-centric interactions using mediated touch.