An Authoring Tool for Vibrotactile Images

This paper presents an authoring tool which makes a user easily and intuitively design vibrotactile sensation. A mobile hardware platform powered by ANDROID, a multi-purpose haptic driver and a linear resonance actuator are used to implement the system of the presented authoring tool. The tool allows users to easily and simply create a vibrotactile sensation by drawing vibrotactile images and to feel the sensation by rubbing drawn images on the touch screen of a mobile device. The tool supports a graphical interface for designing, editing and playing vibrotactile images as well as a pre-defined file format for save and open.

Authors:

• Da-Hye Kim
• Won-Hyung Park
• In-Ho Yun
• Jeong Cheol Kim
• Sang-Youn Kim

Keywords:

• authoring tool
• mobile device
• vibrotactile pattern
• vibrotactile sensation

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