Perceiving ordinal data haptically under workload

Tang, A., McLachlan, P., Lowe, K., Saka, C., and MacLean, K. (2005). Perceiving ordinal data haptically under workload. In ICMI '05: Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Multimodal interfaces, 317--324.

Best paper award

Abstract

Visual information overload is a threat to the interpretation of displays presenting large data sets or complex application environments. To combat this problem, researchers have begun to explore how haptic feedback can be used as another means for information transmission. In this paper, we show that people can perceive and accurately process haptically rendered ordinal data while under cognitive workload. We evaluate three haptic models for rendering ordinal data with participants who were performing a taxing visual tracking task. The evaluation demonstrates that information rendered by these models is perceptually available even when users are visually busy. This preliminary research has promising implications for haptic augmentation of visual displays for information visualization.

Materials

PDF File (http://hcitang.org/papers/2005-icmi-haptic-perception.pdf)
DOI (http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1088463.1088517)

Keywords

Haptics, 1-DOF, tangible user interface, graspable user interface, haptic perception, multimodal displays, information visualization

BibTeX

@inproceedings{tang2005perceiving,
  notes = {Best paper award},
  year = {2005},
  type = {conference},
  title = {Perceiving ordinal data haptically under workload},
  publisher = {ACM},
  pdfurl = {http://hcitang.org/papers/2005-icmi-haptic-perception.pdf},
  pages = {317--324},
  location = {Torento, Italy},
  keywords = {Haptics, 1-DOF, tangible user interface, graspable user interface,
haptic perception, multimodal displays, information visualization},
  isbn = {1-59593-028-0},
  doi = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1088463.1088517},
  date-modified = {2014-01-17 05:26:20 +0000},
  booktitle = {ICMI '05: Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Multimodal
interfaces},
  author = {Tang, Anthony and McLachlan, Peter and Lowe, Karen and Saka, Chalapati
Rao and MacLean, Karon},
  address = {New York, NY, USA},
  abstract = {Visual information overload is a threat to the interpretation of displays
presenting large data sets or complex application environments. To combat this
problem, researchers have begun to explore how haptic feedback can be used
as another means for information transmission. In this paper, we show that
people can perceive and accurately process haptically rendered ordinal data
while under cognitive workload. We evaluate three haptic models for rendering
ordinal data with participants who were performing a taxing visual tracking
task. The evaluation demonstrates that information rendered by these models
is perceptually available even when users are visually busy. This preliminary
research has promising implications for haptic augmentation of visual displays
for information visualization. },
}