Emoballoon: A balloon-shaped interface recognizing social touch interactions

Kosuke Nakajima; Yuichi Itoh; Yusuke Hayashi; Kazuaki Ikeda; Kazuyuki Fujita; Takao Onoye

doi:10.1109/VR.2013.6549433

Emoballoon: A balloon-shaped interface recognizing social touch interactions

Kosuke Nakajima, Yuichi Itoh, Yusuke Hayashi, Kazuaki Ikeda, Kazuyuki Fujita, Takao Onoye

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Abstract

People often communicate with others using social touch interactions including hugging, rubbing, and punching. We propose a soft social-touchable interface called 'Emoballoon' that can recognize the types of social touch interactions. The proposed interface consists of a balloon and some sensors including a barometric pressure sensor inside of a balloon, and has a soft surface and ability to detect the force of the touch input. We construct the prototype of Emoballoon using a simple configuration based on the features of a balloon, and evaluate the implemented prototype. The evaluation indicates that our implementation can distinguish seven types of touch interactions with 83.5% accuracy.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	IEEE Virtual Reality Conference 2013, VR 2013 - Proceedings
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/VR.2013.6549433
Publication status	Published - 2013 Oct 7
Externally published	Yes
Event	20th IEEE Virtual Reality Conference, VR 2013 - Orlando, FL, United States Duration: 2013 Mar 16 → 2013 Mar 20

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Name	Proceedings - IEEE Virtual Reality

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Other	20th IEEE Virtual Reality Conference, VR 2013
Country/Territory	United States
City	Orlando, FL
Period	13/3/16 → 13/3/20

Keywords

gesture recognition
social touch interaction
soft interface

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Engineering(all)

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Nakajima, K, Itoh, Y, Hayashi, Y, Ikeda, K, Fujita, K & Onoye, T 2013, Emoballoon: A balloon-shaped interface recognizing social touch interactions. in IEEE Virtual Reality Conference 2013, VR 2013 - Proceedings., 6549433, Proceedings - IEEE Virtual Reality, 20th IEEE Virtual Reality Conference, VR 2013, Orlando, FL, United States, 13/3/16. https://doi.org/10.1109/VR.2013.6549433

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