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SleeveIO: Modular and Reconfigurable Platform for Multimodal Wearable Haptic Feedback Interactions

Year: 2023

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: SleeveIO is a modular and reconfigurable hardware platform for rapid prototyping of multimodal wearable haptic feedback interactions. SleeveIO features engineered machine-knitted sleeve and band substrates, and five categories of haptic feedback actuator modules including vibrotactors, bellows, muscles, suction/puffing cups, and quad-chamber actuators. A universal magnetic attachment mechanism unifies the different types of actuators, enabling countless multimodal haptic experiences involving combinations of different actuator types in different configurations. SleeveIO is compatible with a variety of hardware/software control platforms, such as FlowIO [42], which enables individual control of each haptic actuator and makes the system battery-powered and untethered. This paper presents the SleeveIO platform in detail along with replication resources, a novel generalized approach to making different types of haptic actuators modular and interoperable, new application possibilities enabled by SleeveIO, and a pilot assessment of the viability of the platform as a whole and each module individually.

Source: ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST)

DOI: 10.1145/3586183.3606739

Authors: Ali Shtarbanov, Mengjia Zhu, Nicholas Colonnese, Amirhossein Hajiagha Memar

Institutions: MIT Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Meta (United States)

Language: English

Topic: Tactile and Sensory Interactions

Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience

Field: Neuroscience

Domain: Life Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

OpenAlex ID: W4387801444

FWCI: 12.89

Cites: 46

Cited by: 25

Related to: 10