Dorsal Haptic Display is an automotive interface questioning how we perceive a car’s surroundings. Motors in a car seats backrest stimulate the driver’s back with a projection of rear obstacles. We conducted a first user study to prove basic functionality and presented our results at AutomotiveUI 2015 in Nottingham, UK, in September.

After some improvements in latency and rendering of the “haptic image” the system was demonstrated at this years International Conference on Persuasive Technology and for a broader public during “Lange Nacht der Forschung”.

Publications

  • Thomas Grah, Felix Epp, Alexander Meschtscherjakov, and Manfred Tscheligi. 2016. “Dorsal Haptic Sensory Augmentation: Fostering Drivers Awareness of Their Surroundings with a Haptic Car Seat.” In Adjunct Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Persuasive Technology (Persuasive ‘16). Salzburg, Austria, 59-62.

  • Thomas Grah, Felix Epp, Martin Wuchse, Alexander Meschtscherjakov, Frank Gabler, Arnd Steinmetz, and Manfred Tscheligi. 2015. “Dorsal haptic display: a shape-changing car seat for sensory augmentation of rear obstacles”. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications (AutomotiveUI ‘15). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 305-312. DOI