I-Corps: Haptic Annunciator System for Situational Awareness

拟议的创新将开拓下一代触觉设备和接口，以丰富和增强游戏、远程通信、军事用途和辅助辅助应用中的远程交互。虽然最初的目标是游戏，但触觉带很快就会扩展到不同的领域，增强我们对周围人和感兴趣的物体的感知，增强并加快我们对当前状况的认识。此外，商业触觉带的可用性将为人类触觉感知、多模态显示设计和交互、以人为中心的多媒体计算和社会行为计算等研究领域的研究和发展开辟新的前景。这项创新技术的商业化将成为辅助技术发展的催化剂，对有感觉障碍（视觉障碍、前庭障碍）和感知障碍（人面失认症）的人的生活产生积极影响——该团队计划在游戏之后最终过渡到这个市场。它还将对一般人群产生重大影响，提供一种具有多种用途的新型通信渠道，从导航和空间定向到增强/虚拟现实，以及对团聚的感知增强，这对异地关系和经常因工作而分离的家庭很重要。触觉带的可用性也将有利于包括心理物理学和触觉心理学在内的组成学科，使其能够获得功能性，可扩展和可重构的触觉显示，这将吸引和激励研究人员探索触觉作为一种接受通道。

The proposed innovation will pioneer next-generation haptic devices and interfaces to enrich and enhance remote interactions within applications of gaming, remote communication, military use and assistive aids. Although gaming is targeted initially, a haptic belt immediately generalizes across diverse domains where augmented perception of those around us and objects of interest enhances and quickens awareness of our present situation. Moreover, the availability of a commercial haptic belt will open new vistas for research and development within research areas of human haptic perception, multimodal display design and interaction, human-centered multimedia computing and socio-behavioral computing.Commercial availability of the proposed innovation will be a catalyst for the development of assistive technologies that will positively impact the lives of individuals with sensory impairments (visual impairments, vestibular impairments) and perceptual impairments (prosopagnosia)- a market the team plans to eventually transition to after gaming. It will also significantly impact the general population, providing a novel communication channel with many uses from navigation and spatial orientation to augmented/virtual reality, and to the perceptual enhancement of togetherness, important for long distance relationships and families often separated by the travel demands of work. The availability of a haptic belt will also benefit component disciplines including psychophysics and psychology of haptics were access to a functional, scalable and reconfigurable haptic display will attract and motivate researchers exploring the sense of touch as a receptive channel.