CollarBeat: Whole Body Vibrotactile Presentation via the Collarbone to Enrich Music Listening Experience

Sakuragi, Rei; Ikeno, Sakiko; Okazaki, Ryuta; Kajimoto, Hiroyuki

CollarBeat: Whole Body Vibrotactile Presentation via the Collarbone to Enrich Music Listening Experience

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Date

2015

Authors

Sakuragi, Rei
Ikeno, Sakiko
Okazaki, Ryuta
Kajimoto, Hiroyuki

Publisher

The Eurographics Association

Abstract

There are numerous proposals for whole body tactile displays that aim to improve the sense of immersion in audio contents. However, these devices commonly have problems, such as long setup times due to numerous actuators, and user confinement to the system. To address these issues, we proposed to present the vibration to a wide area of the body via bone conduction. In this paper, we first investigated whether presenting vibration to the bone really contributes vibration transmission to wider areas of a user's body. Next, we performed a psychophysical experiment to evaluate subjective vibration feeling with music listening experience using our setup. Results suggest that presenting vibration through the collarbone induces vibration transmission more widely through the user's body and enhances subjective music listening experience.

        @inproceedings{10.2312:egve.20151321
,
booktitle = {ICAT-EGVE 2015 - International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence and Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments
},
editor = {Masataka Imura and Pablo Figueroa and Betty Mohler
},
title = {{CollarBeat: Whole Body Vibrotactile Presentation via the Collarbone to Enrich Music Listening Experience
}},
author = {Sakuragi, Rei and 
Ikeno, Sakiko and 
Okazaki, Ryuta and 
Kajimoto, Hiroyuki
},
year = {2015
},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association
},
ISSN = {1727-530X
},
ISBN = {978-3-905674-84-2
},
DOI = {10.2312/egve.20151321
}
}