Title
Direction coding using a tactile chair
Author
de Vries, S.C.
van Erp, J.B.F.
Kiefer, R.J.
TNO Defensie en Veiligheid
Publication year
2009
Abstract
This laboratory study examined the possibility of using a car seat instrumented with tactile display elements (tactors) to communicate directional information to a driver. A car seat fitted with an 8 by 8 matrix of tactors embedded in the seat pan was used to code eight different directions.Localization performance (speed and accuracy) was examined as a function of the directional location, presence of a central attention cue, tactile rhythm, stimulus extent, age, and gender. The mean angular localization error was 23°, and both response accuracy and response times were superior for the backward directions. Of the tactile rhythm / attention cue combinations examined, results favored vibration bursts of 125 and 250 ms without a centrally-located attention cue over longer bursts or signals with an attention cue. Observed age and gender effects were relatively modest. In addition, the tactile stimulus was detected by more than 90% of the participants under surprise trial conditions. Overall, these results indicate that the tactile chair provided a promising and robust method of providing directional information.
Subject
Ergonomics
Safety
Tactile cueing
Traffic
Angular accuracies
Angular errors
Car seats
Cue combinations
Directional informations
Gender effects
Laboratory studies
Localization accuracies
matrixes
Response time
Robust methods
Safety
Tactile cueing
Tactile displays
Tactile stimulus
Temporal patterns
Traffic
chairs
tactile perception
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apergo.2008.09.008
TNO identifier
19027
Source
Applied ergonomics, 40 (3), 477-484
Document type
article