Wearable fingertip with touch, sliding and vibration feedback for immersive virtual reality

Uriel Martinez-Hernandez; Gorkem Anil Al

doi:10.1109/SMC53654.2022.9945316

Wearable fingertip with touch, sliding and vibration feedback for immersive virtual reality

Uriel Martinez-Hernandez, Gorkem Anil Al

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Abstract

Wearable haptic technology plays a key role to enhance the feeling of immersion in virtual reality, telepresence, telehealth and entertainment systems. This work presents a wearable fingertip capable of providing touch, sliding and vibration feedback while the user interacts with virtual objects. This multimodal feedback is applied to the human fingertip using an array of servo motors, a coin vibration motor and 3D printed components. The wearable fingertip uses a 3D printed cylinder that moves up and down to provide touch feedback, and rotates in left and right directions to deliver sliding feedback. The direction of movement and speed of rotation of the cylinder are controlled by the exploration movements performed by the user hand and finger. Vibration feedback is generated using a coin vibration motor with the frequency controlled by the type of virtual material explored by the user. The Leap Motion module is employed to track the human hand and fingers to control the feedback delivered by the wearable device. This work is validated with experiments for exploration of virtual objects in Unity. The experiments show that this wearable haptic device offers an alternative platform with the potential of enhancing the feeling and experience of immersion in virtual reality environments, exploration of objects and telerobotics.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2022 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, SMC 2022 - Proceedings
Place of Publication	U. S. A.
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	293-298
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781665452588
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/SMC53654.2022.9945316
Publication status	Published - 31 Oct 2022
Event	2022 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, SMC 2022 - Prague, Czech Republic Duration: 9 Oct 2022 → 12 Oct 2022

Publication series

Name	Conference Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
Volume	2022-October
ISSN (Print)	1062-922X

Conference

Conference	2022 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, SMC 2022
Country/Territory	Czech Republic
City	Prague
Period	9/10/22 → 12/10/22

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Funding Information:
*This work was supported by the Royal Society Research Grants for the ‘Touching and feeling the immersive world’ project (RGS/R2/192346).

Keywords

haptics
immersion
multimodal feedback

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Control and Systems Engineering
Human-Computer Interaction

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Martinez-Hernandez, U., & Al, G. A. (2022). Wearable fingertip with touch, sliding and vibration feedback for immersive virtual reality. In 2022 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, SMC 2022 - Proceedings (pp. 293-298). (Conference Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics; Vol. 2022-October). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/SMC53654.2022.9945316

Wearable fingertip with touch, sliding and vibration feedback for immersive virtual reality. / Martinez-Hernandez, Uriel ; Al, Gorkem Anil.
2022 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, SMC 2022 - Proceedings. U. S. A.: IEEE, 2022. p. 293-298 (Conference Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics; Vol. 2022-October).

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Martinez-Hernandez, U & Al, GA 2022, Wearable fingertip with touch, sliding and vibration feedback for immersive virtual reality. in 2022 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, SMC 2022 - Proceedings. Conference Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, vol. 2022-October, IEEE, U. S. A., pp. 293-298, 2022 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, SMC 2022, Prague, Czech Republic, 9/10/22. https://doi.org/10.1109/SMC53654.2022.9945316

Martinez-Hernandez U , Al GA. Wearable fingertip with touch, sliding and vibration feedback for immersive virtual reality. In 2022 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, SMC 2022 - Proceedings. U. S. A.: IEEE. 2022. p. 293-298. (Conference Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics). doi: 10.1109/SMC53654.2022.9945316

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