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

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2019-11-12