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Interacting with Augmented Floor Surfaces

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This chapter reviews techniques and technologies for interaction via the feet with touch-sensitive floor surfaces that are augmented with multimodal (visual, auditory, and/or haptic) feedback. We discuss aspects of human-computer interaction with such interfaces, including potential applications in virtual and augmented reality for floor based user interfaces and immersive walking simulations. Several realizations of augmented floor surfaces are discussed, and we review one case example that has been extensively investigated by the authors, along with evaluations that have been reported in prior literature. Potential applications in the domains of human-computer interaction and virtual reality are also reviewed.

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  1. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA

    Yon Visell

  2. McGill University, Montreal, Canada

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  1. University of Würzburg, Oswald-Külpe-Weg 82, Würzburg, 97074, Germany

    Frank Steinicke

  2. Drexel University, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineerin, Philadelphia, 19104, Pennsylvania, USA

    Yon Visell

  3. University of Toronto,  Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, Univ, University Ave 550, Toronto, M5G 2A2, Ontario, Canada

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  4. Computer Science and Control (INRIA), National Institute for Research in, Campus de Beaulie, Rennes Cedex, 35042, France

    Anatole Lécuyer

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Visell, Y., Smith, S., Cooperstock, J.R. (2013). Interacting with Augmented Floor Surfaces. In: Steinicke, F., Visell, Y., Campos, J., Lécuyer, A. (eds) Human Walking in Virtual Environments. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8432-6_17

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