TY  - CONF
TI  - Exploring vibrotactile cues for interactive guidance in data visualization
AU  - Han, Wenkai
AU  - Schulz, Hans-Jörg
T2  - VINCI 2020: The 13th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction
A2  - Nguyen, Quang Vinh
A2  - Zhao, Ying
A2  - Burch, Michael
A2  - Westenberg, Michel
AB  - In visualization, user guidance has become an essential concept to aid users in making informed decisions ranging from what subsets to focus on in the data space to which regions to explore in the view space. To guide users, predominantly visual cues like colors or arrows are used to indicate particular targets or directions. In this paper, we explore the possibility of another sensory channel for guidance cues: vibrotactile feedback. To that end, we explore different properties of the vibrotactile channel (e.g., amplitude and duration) and discuss their potential use as guidance cues. We then report on an experiment (N=14) in which we investigate possible vibrotactile cues in comparison to visual cues and to a combination of visual and vibrotactile cues for a guided selection scenario and a guided navigation scenario. Although none of the vibrotactile cues significantly outperformed the visual cues, our study results shed light on a number of practical issues when using vibration for user guidance - including differences between various types of vibrotactile feedback, as well as diverging performance for different guidance scenarios.
C1  - Eindhoven, The Netherlands
C3  - Proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction
DA  - 2020/12/08/
PY  - 2020
DO  - 10.1145/3430036.3430042
SP  - 14:1
EP  - 14:10
PB  - ACM
SN  - 9781450387507
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1145/3430036.3430042
ER  -