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Authors:
Olivier Hugues
Lucie Brunet
Christine Megard
Philippe Fuchs
Keywords: Vibrotactile device evaluation; multi-modal interface; tourism mobile device; public transport; virtual reality
Abstract:
It can be difficult to find your way in public transport, especially when the journey combines indoor and outdoor trans- portation. We designed an innovative vibrotactile device dedicated to guide a pedestrian in public transport. This multi-modal interface can be used to guide a pedestrian in unknown public transport. The device can be used by visually impaired person. The device has been tested during two main phases. The first step was to test the device using virtual reality while the second step test was to test the device in a real environment. This paper presents the first part of the evaluation of the device. We have developed a virtual reality scenario to assess the objective and subjective utility of the device. The results showed that the device could properly guide users. We also evaluated the usefulness of a warning vibration preceding a message. It was found that the vibration seems to introduce confusion to the pattern recognition by the user.
Pages: 24 to 32
Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2015
Publication date: February 22, 2015
Published in: conference
ISSN: 2308-4138
ISBN: 978-1-61208-382-7
Location: Lisbon, Portugal
Dates: from February 22, 2015 to February 27, 2015