7AM2-D-5 Effect of tactile stimulation on user's line-of-sight
Kota Sampei, Masataka Ozawa, Carlos Cortes, Miho Ogawa, Norihisa Miki · The Proceedings of the Symposium on Micro-Nano Science and Technology · 2013
This paper presents an experimental platform to explore effective ambient intelligence systems using a MEMS-based wearable eye-tracking system and tactile display. Ambient intelligence, which allows us to receive useful information on site and at real time from the surrounding environment, requires a method to let the users be aware of the information. Given that our vision and hearing is heavily used, we consider that utilizing of tactile sensation is most effective. In our experiments, tactile information was provided to a subject by a MEMS tactile display that has an array of MEMS actuators and his response was detected by a wearable eye-tracking system that used micro-fabricated dye-sensitized photovoltaic cells on eyeglasses to detect the movement of his eye. The proposed platform is readily applicable to develop effective ambient intelligence systems and other information communication technologies (ICT).