TY - JOUR
AU1 - Su, Yuning
AU2 - Jin, Yuhua
AU3 - Wang, Zhengqing
AU4 - Shi, Yonghao
AU5 - Huang, Da-Yuan
AU6 - Han, Teng
AU7 - Yang, Xing-Dong
AB - We investigate the feasibility of a vibrotactile device that is both battery-free and electronic-free. Our approach leverages lasers as a wireless power transfer and haptic control mechanism, which can drive small actuators commonly used in AR/VR and mobile applications with DC or AC signals. To validate the feasibility of our method, we developed a proof-of-concept prototype that includes low-cost eccentric rotating mass (ERM) motors and linear resonant actuators (LRAs) connected to photovoltaic (PV) cells. This prototype enabled us to capture laser energy from any distance across a room and analyze the impact of critical parameters on the effectiveness of our approach. Through a user study, testing 16 different vibration patterns rendered using either a single motor or two motors, we demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach in generating vibration patterns of comparable quality to a baseline, which rendered the patterns using a signal generator.
TI - Laser-Powered Vibrotactile Rendering
JF - ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications
DO - 10.1145/3631449
DA - 2024-01-12
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/association-for-computing-machinery/laser-powered-vibrotactile-rendering-i0TvhP73YR
SP - 1
EP - 25
VL - 7
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -