7. Jointonation

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

  1. 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.
  2. 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.

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