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Harmonious Textures: The Perceptual Dimensions of Synthetic Sinusoidal Gratings

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Haptics: Science, Technology, and Applications (EuroHaptics 2018)

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Abstract

Natural gratings explored by a finger generate vibratory patterns. These vibrations contain a wide range of frequencies, which include the fundamental spatial frequency of the grating and other (higher) harmonics. In this study, it was proposed to investigate how the fundamental and harmonic frequencies contribute to the perception of a virtual grating presented in the form of spatial pattern of friction force. Using multidimensional scaling methods, we established that the first overtone was the main characteristic used by the participants to identify gratings. When asked to rate the pleasantness to the touch, participants’ preferences were for gratings with low spatial frequencies and low amplitudes. These results suggest new ways of creating meaningful, pleasant human-computer interactions in the context of surface-haptic displays.

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Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank Vincent Roussarie, Sebastien Danjean, Emmanuelle Diaz, Rodolphe Houdas and Claire Lescure for the thoughtful comments on the experimental procedure. This work has been conducted in the framework of the Openlab PSA-AMU “Automotive Motion Lab”. MW acknowledges support from ANR-16-CE33-0002-01.

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    Corentin Bernard & Jocelyn Monnoyer

  2. Aix Marseille Université, CNRS ISM, Marseille, France

    Corentin Bernard, Jocelyn Monnoyer & Michaël Wiertlewski

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    Hong Z. Tan

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Bernard, C., Monnoyer, J., Wiertlewski, M. (2018). Harmonious Textures: The Perceptual Dimensions of Synthetic Sinusoidal Gratings. In: Prattichizzo, D., Shinoda, H., Tan, H., Ruffaldi, E., Frisoli, A. (eds) Haptics: Science, Technology, and Applications. EuroHaptics 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10894. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93399-3_58

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