HaptiColor: Interpolating color information as haptic feedback to assist the colorblind

Marta G. Carcedo; Soon Hau Chua; Simon Perrault; Paweł Woźniak; Raj Joshi; Mohammad Obaid; Morten Fjeld; Shengdong Zhao

doi:10.1145/2858036.2858220

HaptiColor: Interpolating color information as haptic feedback to assist the colorblind

Marta G. Carcedo, Soon Hau Chua, Simon Perrault, Paweł Woźniak, Raj Joshi, Mohammad Obaid, Morten Fjeld, Shengdong Zhao

Research output: Chapters, Conference Papers, Creative and Literary Works › RGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (with host publication) › peer-review

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Abstract

Most existing colorblind AIDS help their users to distinguish and recognize colors but not compare them. We present HaptiColor, an assistive wristband that encodes discrete color information into spatiotemporal vibrations to support colorblind users to recognize and compare colors. We ran three experiments: the first found the optimal number and placement of motors around the wrist-worn prototype, and the second tested the optimal way to represent discrete points between the vibration motors. Results suggested that using three vibration motors and pulses of varying duration to encode proximity information in spatiotemporal patterns is the optimal solution. Finally, we evaluated the HaptiColor prototype and encodings with six colorblind participants. Our results show that the participants were able to easily understand the encodings and perform color comparison tasks accurately (94.4% to 100%).

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI 2016 - Proceedings, 34th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	3572-3583
ISBN (Print)	9781450333627
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2858036.2858220
Publication status	Published - 7 May 2016
Externally published	Yes
Event	34th Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2016 - San Jose, United States Duration: 7 May 2016 → 12 May 2016 https://chi2016.acm.org

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Name	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

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Conference	34th Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2016
Place	United States
City	San Jose
Period	7/05/16 → 12/05/16
Internet address	https://chi2016.acm.org

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Research Keywords

Color blindness
Spatiotemporal vibrotactile pattern
Vibration
Wearable computing
Wristband

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Carcedo, M. G., Chua, S. H., Perrault, S., Woźniak, P., Joshi, R., Obaid, M., Fjeld, M., & Zhao, S. (2016). HaptiColor: Interpolating color information as haptic feedback to assist the colorblind. In CHI 2016 - Proceedings, 34th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 3572-3583). (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/2858036.2858220

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HaptiColor: Interpolating color information as haptic feedback to assist the colorblind

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