@INPROCEEDINGS{Rich1011:UbiComp,
AUTHOR="Hendrik Richter and Benedikt Blaha and Alexander Wiethoff and Dominikus Baur and Andreas Butz",
TITLE="Tactile Feedback without a Big Fuss: Simple Actuators for High-Resolution Phantom Sensations",
BOOKTITLE="13th ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing - UbiComp 2011",
ADDRESS="Beijing, China",
DAYS=17,
MONTH=09,
YEAR=2011,
KEYWORDS="interactive surfaces, tactile feedback, actuator technology",
ABSTRACT="Multi-touch screens and surfaces for manipulating  digital content  play a crucial role in mobile and ubiquitous computing.  Augmenting  these  interactive surfaces with tactile feedback  has been found  to increase interaction speed, reduce operating errors and minimize visual and cognitive load.  Communicating detailed tactile characteristics of virtual elements, however, requires complex electromechanical or electrostatic actuator setups. This increase in complexity makes tactile interfaces intricate, costly or poorly scalable.
In order to  provide sophisticated tactile sensations with simple actuator technology,  we  exploit  a haptic psychophysical phenomenon called Phantom Sensation. We present a comparison of  three  standard  tactile actuator technologies to  see which one can  recreate the  Phantom Sensation with maximum effect. Our results show the way to a simple and scalable implementation of illusion-based tactile feedback for interactive surfaces. We explore the notion of the Phantom Sensation and its possible applications within a ubicomp scenario."
}