TY - GEN
T1 - Frictio
T2 - 30th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, UIST 2017
AU - Han, Teng
AU - Han, Qian
AU - Annett, Michelle
AU - Anderson, Fraser
AU - Huang, XDa-Yuan
AU - Yang, Xing Dong
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Association for Computing Machinery.
PY - 2017/10/20
Y1 - 2017/10/20
N2 - Smart rings have a unique form factor suitable for many applications, however, they offer little opportunity to provide the user with natural output. We propose passive kinesthetic force feedback as a novel output method for rotational input on smart rings. With this new output channel, friction force profiles can be designed, programmed, and felt by a user when they rotate the ring. This modality enables new interactions for ring form factors. We demonstrate the potential of this new haptic output method though Frictio, a prototype smart ring. In a controlled experiment, we determined the recognizability of six force profiles, including Hard Stop, Ramp-Up, Ramp-Down, Resistant Force, Bump, and No Force. The results showed that participants could distinguish between the force profiles with 94% accuracy. We conclude by presenting a set of novel interaction techniques that Frictio enables, and discuss insights and directions for future research.
AB - Smart rings have a unique form factor suitable for many applications, however, they offer little opportunity to provide the user with natural output. We propose passive kinesthetic force feedback as a novel output method for rotational input on smart rings. With this new output channel, friction force profiles can be designed, programmed, and felt by a user when they rotate the ring. This modality enables new interactions for ring form factors. We demonstrate the potential of this new haptic output method though Frictio, a prototype smart ring. In a controlled experiment, we determined the recognizability of six force profiles, including Hard Stop, Ramp-Up, Ramp-Down, Resistant Force, Bump, and No Force. The results showed that participants could distinguish between the force profiles with 94% accuracy. We conclude by presenting a set of novel interaction techniques that Frictio enables, and discuss insights and directions for future research.
KW - Haptics
KW - Passive kinesthetic force feedback
KW - Ring
KW - Wearable
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85040526088&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3126594.3126622
DO - 10.1145/3126594.3126622
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85040526088
T3 - UIST 2017 - Proceedings of the 30th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology
SP - 131
EP - 142
BT - UIST 2017 - Proceedings of the 30th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Y2 - 22 October 2017 through 25 October 2017
ER -