MORE | Spring 2025

Haptic-Viz: an Interface for Visualizing Free-form User Descriptions of Haptic Signals

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Vibrotactile haptic feedback is used by designers and developers to enhance user experience, improve accessibility, and provide cues (e.g., navigation) to users in eyes-free and multimodal applications. User descriptions of haptic signals would allow multimodal researchers to analyze and compare the characteristics of signals, helping them in the development of machine learning models. The research aims to design and develop an interface that allows users to visualize and navigate the sensory, emotional, and associative descriptions of signals, enabling them to select signals tailored to their application requirements easily.