Vibrotactile Emotions on a Mobile Phone

Abstract

Vibrotactile sensations to sight and sound cues on mobile handsets make content more realistic, fun and operation more intuitive. An intuitive method to render human facial feature for visually impaired is evaluated for effectiveness. In current system, the vibration of a mobile phone is used to provide emotion information based on human lip¿s shape. Using designed vibration patterns, the users are able to tactually perceive emotion information of others. The evaluation of current system¿s efficiency based on usability guidelines shows almost perfect recognition accuracy of emotions based on facial features.