Project Number
- 214
Title
- Foot Interface: Fantastic Phantom Slipper
Description
- Demonstration of tactile feedback interface for the feet.
Contact
- Yuichiro Kume
Affiliation
- Tokyo Institute of Polytechnics
Address
- 1583 Iiyama,
- Atsugi, Kanagawa 243-0297 Japan
- kume@photo.t-kougei.ac.jp
WWW
- http://laplace.photo.t-kougei.ac.jp
Year
- 1998
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 98 Conference Abstracts and Applications
Project Details
- This presentation demonstrates a slipper-like multi-modal interface that is based upon the assumptions:
- 1 - people should be able to use their feet just as freely in a virtual environment as they do in the real world
- 2 - wearable interfaces should not cause psychological and/or physical discomforts
- "Each foot's movement is measured in real time with an optical motion capture system, and feedback signals are transmitted to the soles."
- "Phantom sensations elicited by multiple tactile stimuli allow transmission of complicated feedback information such as objects moving around the feet. Optical markers for motion capture and vibrators for tactile stimulation are installed in the slippers. The system runs on a single PC."
Sight
- PC workstation, optical tracking system
Sound
Touch
- slipper (foot) interface with tactile stimuli
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 1 - Innovation, Custom, Research
Intent
- 2 - Technique (paradigm, human)
Primary
- 205 - tangible / gesture interface
Secondary
- 103 - sense cue (vis,aud,tac/ff/mo,olf,tast)
Remarks
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