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Where is my team: supporting situation awareness with tactile displays

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CHI '10: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1753326.1753581

Published: 10 April 2010 Publication History

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A group of friends visiting a crowded and noisy music festival is an example of a situation where knowing the location of other people is important, but where external factors, such as darkness or noise, can limit the ability to keep track of the others. By combining theories about situation awareness and cognitive processing we inferred that communicating information via the sense of touch is a promising approach in such situations. We therefore investigated how to present the location of several people using a tactile torso display. In particular we focused on encoding spatial distances in the tactile signals. We experimentally compared encoding spatial distances in the rhythm, duration, and intensity of a tactile signal. Our findings show that all parameters are suited to encode distances. None of it was clearly outperformed. We then embedded our tactile location encoding into a fast-paced 3D multiplayer game. In this game, team play and the awareness of the team members' locations are crucial for the success in the game. The results provides evidence that the locations of the team members could be processed effectively despite the game's high cognitive demands. In addition, the team equipped with the tactile display showed a better team play and a higher situation awareness.

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Where is my team: supporting situation awareness with tactile displays
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Computer graphics
    1. Graphics systems and interfaces
2. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction devices
      1. Graphics input devices
      2. Haptic devices

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CHI '10: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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DOI:10.1145/1753326

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Georgia Institute of Technology
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Vienna University of Technology
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Carnegie Mellon University
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Georgia Tech
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