Coupling Motion and Perception in Body Based UI

Abstract

In this essay I outline my current work on motion and haptic perception. I start from my perspective on Embodied Interaction, explaining why I chose to design interfaces focusing on the body in motion. I then describe how my research has moved from creating devices that are not negatively influenced by the moving body, to devices that take advantage of the moving body. This research path has led me to investigating how vibrotactile information and proprioceptive cues are integrated and together give rise to an experience of texture. I am searching for generalizable patterns in how we process haptic information, to apply it to other modalities. I believe that this will allow us to create new embodied experiences of sensations we previously only had indirect access to.