Vibro-Tactile Implicit Interactions: So What?

Abstract : Tactile feedback is a powerful modality for designing human-computer interfaces. Here we explore new ways of communication through tactile senses that can be perceived implicitly. This paper outlines the preliminary phase of research the goal of which is to investigate to what extent a vibro-tactile stimulus can be meaningfully communicated on an unconscious/implicit level of perception. Ability to perceive information implicitly provides an alternative channel for communication and may therefore reduce our cognitive load. In this poster, we formulate our research problem, suggest a research framework and outline future experiments enabled by the prototype we have designed.