I-Corps: Game Controllers with Integrated Skin Stretch Feedback

该项目将应用触摸反馈技术（皮肤和拉伸反馈）用于游戏控制器，并将产生具有完整皮肤拉伸反馈的精致游戏控制器。可以在这个游戏控制器上描绘的触觉交互游戏效果将与商业视频游戏相结合，以提供该技术的演示。相信这将提升游戏沉浸感和性能。性能提升的形式包括更快的完成时间、更好的空间感知和跟踪能力，以及减少用户的认知负荷。嵌入式皮肤拉伸反馈的游戏控制器有可能改变游戏世界，并帮助这项技术扩散到其他应用中。游戏玩法中所描绘的触觉效果可以被改进并应用于任何应用程序中，这些应用程序可以从额外的交流信息模式中获益。这些应用包括：汽车、飞机、直升机的移动导航；改善移动机器人或无人空中/海上/地面车辆控制的军事应用；以及医疗应用，如机器人手术或康复；或者为盲人提供指导。由于游戏控制器对年轻人和一般公众也有很大的吸引力，它已经并将继续被用于教育活动。控制器可以作为一个平台来解释在工程和计算机科学方面拥有强大的技术背景的重要性，并表明工程职业是有回报的。

This project will apply touch feedback technology (skin and stretch feedback) for use in a game controller and will result in a refined game controller with integral skin stretch feedback. Tactile interaction game effects that can be portrayed on this game controller will be integrated with a commercial video game to provide a demonstration of this technology. It is believed that this will lead to both improved game immersion and performance. Performance gains are expected to be in the form of faster completion times, improved spatial awareness and tracking capability, and reduced cognitive load of the user. The game controller with embedded skin stretch feedback has the potential to change the gaming world as well as to help this technology proliferate into other applications. The tactile effects portrayed in game play can be refined and applied to any number of applications that can benefit from an additional modality of communicated information. These applications include: mobile navigation in cars, airplanes, helicopters; military applications for improved control of mobile robots or unmanned aerial/marine/ground vehicles; and medical applications such as robotic surgery or rehabilitation; or providing guidance to the blind. Since the game controller also has great appeal to young adults, and to the public in general, it had been and will continue to be used for educational activities. The controller can serve as a platform to explain the importance of having a strong technical background in engineering and computer science, and shows that careers in engineering can be rewarding.