Virtual Training via Vibrotactile Arrays

• Published in: Presence : teleoperators and virtual environment Vol. 17; no. 2; pp. 103 - 120
• Main Authors: Bloomfield, Aaron, Badler, Norman I.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: One Rogers Street, Cambridge, MA 02142-1209, USA MIT Press 01.04.2008

What is often missing from many virtual worlds and training simulations is a physical sense of the confinement and constraint of the virtual environment. We present a method for providing localized cutaneous vibratory feedback to the user's right arm. We created a sleeve of tactors linked to a...