Notes from Demos for Haptic Symposium Visitors
Posted: March 11, 2012 Filed under: Uncategorized Comments Off on Notes from Demos for Haptic Symposium Visitors“All make [the phone] seem alive”
Vibrate/waddle: snoring, purring, more whimsical ring, pleasant
Vibrate: buzzing, ramps up/down more smoothly than a regular phone, shivering/cold
Waddle: cat-like when it does it by itself
Breathing: nervous, beating, creature inside, something beating, organic, artificial heart, heart beat, nervous, breathing, creature trying to get out, tapping/poking, know it’s a servo …feels uneven (to be breathing it needs to be more smooth), the click when it goes down make makes it feel artificial
Ears wiggle: pay attention to me, happy, it’s wiggling its ears, wagging its tail, sounds angry
…when they hold it at the ears end, the other end moves
Ears that move once: pay attention to me when you have time, don’t touch me here, reptilian, muscle tension, curling up
Hot/cold: cell phones already get hot – normal plugged in electronic
Foam: Very pleasant to touch. Could communicate differently than if they were made of plastic
Random Notes/Suggestions:
Almost everyone pushed down hard on the prototype
Add a string gauge…. measures the deformation of a device
Possible reference: Matthew Bowman, Tom Hazelton …emulating attention getting …would be a good reference (emotion expression stuff)
In the area of Organic Haptics
One ‘mode’/area’ we are exploring is Shape changing.
Prof. Hiroshi Ishiguro …doing similar research
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