HaptiColor: Interpolating Color Information as Haptic Feedback to Assist the Colorblind
Paper i proceeding, 2016
Most existing colorblind aids help their users to distinguish and recognize colors but not compare them. We present HaptiColor, an assistive wristband that encodes discrete color information into spatiotemporal vibrations to support colorblind users to recognize and compare colors. We ran three experiments: the first found the optimal number and placement of motors around the wrist-worn prototype, and the second tested the optimal way to represent discrete points between the vibration motors. Results suggested that using three vibration motors and pulses of varying duration to encode proximity information in spatiotemporal patterns is the optimal solution. Finally, we evaluated the HaptiColor prototype and encodings with six colorblind participants. Our results show that the participants were able to easily understand the encodings and perform color comparison tasks accurately (94.4% to 100%).
wearable computing
wristband
spatiotemporal vibrotactile pattern
vibration
Color blindness
Författare
Marta Gonzalez Carcedo
Chalmers, Tillämpad mekanik, Fordonssäkerhet
S. H. Chua
Universiti Kebangsaan Singapura (NUS)
S. Perrault
Yale NUS College
Universiti Kebangsaan Singapura (NUS)
Pawel Wozniak
Chalmers, Tillämpad informationsteknologi, Interaktionsdesign
R. Joshi
Universiti Kebangsaan Singapura (NUS)
Mohammad Obaid
Chalmers, Tillämpad informationsteknologi, Interaktionsdesign
Morten Fjeld
Chalmers, Tillämpad informationsteknologi, Interaktionsdesign
S. D. Zhao
Universiti Kebangsaan Singapura (NUS)
34th Annual Chi Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Chi 2016
3572-3583
Ämneskategorier
Programvaruteknik
DOI
10.1145/2858036.2858220