VibraForge: A Scalable Prototyping Toolkit For Creating Spatialized Vibrotactile Feedback Systems

要旨

Spatialized vibrotactile feedback systems deliver tactile information by placing multiple vibrotactile actuators on the body. As increasing numbers of actuators are required to adequately convey information in complicated applications, haptic designers find it difficult to create such systems due to limited scalability of existing toolkits. We propose VibraForge, an open-source vibrotactile toolkit that supports up to 128 vibrotactile actuators. Each actuator is encapsulated within a self-contained vibration unit and driven by its own microcontroller. By leveraging a chain-connection method, each unit receives independent vibration commands from a control unit, with fine-grained control over intensity and frequency. We also designed a GUI Editor to expedite the authoring of spatial vibrotactile patterns. Technical evaluation showed that vibration units reliably reproduced audio waveforms with low-latency and high-bandwidth data communication. Case studies of a phonemic tactile display, virtual reality fitness training, and drone teleoperation demonstrated the potential usage of VibraForge within different domains. A usability study with non-expert users highlighted the low technical barrier and customizability of the toolkit.

著者
Bingjian Huang
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Siyi Ren
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Yuewen Luo
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Qilong Cheng
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Hanfeng Cai
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Yeqi Sang
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Mauricio Sousa
Reality Labs Research at Meta, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Paul H. Dietz
The University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Daniel Wigdor
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
DOI

10.1145/3706598.3714273

論文URL

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3706598.3714273

動画

会議: CHI 2025

The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (https://chi2025.acm.org/)

セッション: Vibration Vibes

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2025-05-01 18:00:00
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