Hiroyuki Kajimoto, Yosuke Kurihara, Taku Hachisu (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan)
KatherineJ. Kuchenbecker (University of Pennsylvania)
Jointonation is a virtual robotization system that provides a robot-like
feeling to the human body not only by using a visual display and sound
effects, but also by rendering a robot’s haptic vibration to the user’s
arm. The vibrotactile stimulus was recorded using real robot actuation and
modeled using linear predictive coding. We experimentally confirmed that
the subjective robot-like feeling was significantly increased by combining
the robot-vibration feedback with a robot-joint animation and creaking
sound effects.
Developer
The lab mainly focuses on a research on tactile illusory phenomena,
development of tactile and cross-modal displays based on the phenomena, and
application of the displays to the fields of communication, entertainment
and welfare.
Publications
Y. Kurihara, T. Hachisu, K. J. Kuchenbecker, H. Kajimoto: Jointonation:
Robotization of the Human Body by Vibrotactile Feedback.
ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2013 Emerging Technologies, November 19-22, 2013, Hong
Kong.
Y. Kurihara, S. Takei, Y. Nakai, T. Hachisu, K. J. Kuchenbecker, H.
Kajimoto: Haptic Robotization of the Human Body by Data-Driven Vibrotactile
Feedback .Elsevier Journal on Entertainment Computing, Volume 5, Issue 4,
Pages 485-494, December 2014.