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Aerial Push-Button with Two-Stage Tactile Feedback using Reflected Airborne Ultrasound Focus

Human-Computer Interaction 2024-07-02 v2 Emerging Technologies

Abstract

We developed a new aerial push-button with tactile feedback using focused airborne ultrasound. This study has two significant novelties compared to past related studies: 1) ultrasound emitters are equipped behind the user's finger and reflected ultrasound emission that is focused just above the solid plane placed under the finger presents tactile feedback to a finger pad, and 2) tactile feedback is presented at two stages during pressing motion; at the time of pushing the button and withdrawing the finger from it. The former has a significant advantage in apparatus implementation in that the input surface of the device can be composed of a generic thin plane including touch panels, potentially capable of presenting input touch feedback only when the user touches objects on the screen. We experimentally found that the two-stage tactile presentation is much more effective in strengthening perceived tactile stimulation and feeling of input completion when compared with a conventional single-stage method. This study proposes a composition of an aerial push-button in much more practical use than ever. The proposed system composition is expected to be one of the simplest frameworks in the airborne ultrasound tactile interface.

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@article{arxiv.2406.19663,
  title  = {Aerial Push-Button with Two-Stage Tactile Feedback using Reflected Airborne Ultrasound Focus},
  author = {Hiroya Sugawara and Masaya Takasaki and Keisuke Hasegawa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.19663},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

9 pages, 15 figures, original manuscript edited by Microsoft Word