Conflicting Audio-haptic Feedback in Physically Based Simulation of Walking Sounds

We describe an audio-haptic experiment conducted using a system which simulates in real-time the auditory and haptic sensation of walking on different surfaces. The system is based on physical models, that drive both the haptic and audio synthesizers, and a pair of shoes enhanced with sensors and actuators. Such experiment was run to examine the ability of subjects to recognize the different surfaces with both coherent and incoherent audio-haptic stimuli. Results show that in this kind of tasks the auditory modality is dominant on the haptic one.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: HAID
• Authors: Luca Turchet, Stefania Serafin, Smilen Dimitrov, Rolf Nordahl
• Keywords: Auditory Modality, HAID 2010, Haptic Sensation, Human Computer Interaction, Incoherent Audio-haptic Stimuli