MagnetIO: Passive yet Interactive Soft Haptic Patches Anywhere

要旨

We propose a new type of haptic actuator, which we call MagnetIO, that is comprised of two parts: one battery-powered voice-coil worn on the user’s fingernail and any number of interactive soft patches that can be attached onto any surface (everyday objects, user’s body, appliances, etc.). When the user’s finger wearing our voice-coil contacts any of the interactive patches it detects its magnetic signature via magnetometer and vibrates the patch, adding haptic feedback to otherwise input-only interactions. To allow these passive patches to vibrate, we make them from silicone with regions doped with polarized neodymium powder, resulting in soft and stretchable magnets. This stretchable form-factor allows them to be wrapped to the user’s body or everyday objects of various shapes. We demonstrate how these add haptic output to many situations, such as adding haptic buttons to the walls of one’s home. In our technical evaluation, we demonstrate that our interactive patches can be excited across a wide range of frequencies (0-500 Hz) and can be tuned to resonate at specific frequencies based on the patch’s geometry. Furthermore, we demonstrate that MagnetIO’s vibration intensity is as powerful as a typical linear resonant actuator (LRA); yet, unlike these rigid actuators, our passive patches operate as springs with multiple modes of vibration, which enables a wider band around its resonant frequency than an equivalent LRA.

著者
Alex Mazursky
University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States
Shan-Yuan Teng
University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States
Romain Nith
University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States
Pedro Lopes
University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States
DOI

10.1145/3411764.3445543

論文URL

https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445543

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会議: CHI 2021

The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (https://chi2021.acm.org/)

セッション: Haptics

[A] Paper Room 09, 2021-05-10 17:00:00~2021-05-10 19:00:00 / [B] Paper Room 09, 2021-05-11 01:00:00~2021-05-11 03:00:00 / [C] Paper Room 09, 2021-05-11 09:00:00~2021-05-11 11:00:00
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