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Tactile Masking by Electrovibration

2018

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Future touch screen applications will include multiple tactile stimuli displayed simultaneously or consecutively to single finger or multiple fingers. These applications should be designed by considering human tactile masking mechanism since it is known that presenting one stimulus may interfere with the perception of the other. In this study, we investigate the effect of masking on tactile perception of electrovibration displayed on touch screens. Through conducting psychophysical experiments with nine subjects, we measured the masked thresholds of sinusoidal electrovibration bursts (125 Hz) under two masking conditions: simultaneous and pedestal. The masking stimuli were noise bursts, applied at five different sensation levels varying from 2 to 22 dB SL, also presented by electrovibration. For each subject, the detection thresholds were elevated as linear functions of masking levels for both masking types. We observed that the masking effectiveness was larger with pedestal masking than simultaneous masking. Moreover, in order to investigate the effect of tactile masking on our haptic perception of edge sharpness, we compared the perceived sharpness of edges separating two textured regions displayed with and without various masking stimuli. Our results suggest that sharpness perception depends on the local contrast between background and foreground stimuli, which varies as a function of masking amplitude and activation levels of frequency-dependent psychophysical channels.

Author(s): Yasemin Vardar and Burak Güçlü and Cagatay Basdogan
Journal: IEEE Transactions on Haptics
Volume: 11
Number (issue): 4
Pages: 623--635
Year: 2018

Department(s): Haptic Intelligence
Bibtex Type: Article (article)
Paper Type: Journal

DOI: DOI: 10.1109/TOH.2018.2855124

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Attachments: vardar_toh2018

BibTex

@article{Vardar18-TOH-Masking,
  title = {Tactile Masking by Electrovibration},
  author = {Vardar, Yasemin and G{\"u}{\c{c}}l{\"u}, Burak and Basdogan, Cagatay},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Haptics},
  volume = {11},
  number = {4},
  pages = {623--635},
  year = {2018},
  doi = {DOI: 10.1109/TOH.2018.2855124}
}