TY - JOUR AU - Wang, Feng AU - Zhang, Wanna AU - Luo, Wei PY - 2018 DA - 2018/12/02 TI - An Empirical Evaluation on Vibrotactile Feedback for Wristband System SP - 4878014 VL - 2018 AB - With the rapid development of mobile computing, wearable wrist worn is becoming more and more popular. But the current vibrotactile feedback patterns of most wrist-worn devices are too simple to enable effective interaction in nonvisual scenarios. In this paper, we propose the wristband system with four vibrating motors placed in different positions in the wristband, providing multiple vibration patterns to transmit multisemantic information for users in eyes-free scenarios. However, we just applied five vibrotactile patterns in experiments (positional up and down, horizontal diagonal, clockwise circular, and total vibration) after contrastive analyzing nine patterns in a pilot experiment. The two experiments with the same 12 participants perform the same experimental process in labs and outdoors. According to the experimental results, users can effectively distinguish the five patterns both in lab and outside, with approximately 90% accuracy (except clockwise circular vibration of outside experiment), proving these five vibration patterns can be used to output multisemantic information. The system can be applied to eyes-free interaction scenarios for wrist-worn devices. SN - 1574-017X UR - https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/4878014 DO - 10.1155/2018/4878014 JF - Mobile Information Systems PB - Hindawi KW - ER -