Investigating the semantic perceptual space of synthetic textures on an ultrasonic based haptic tablet

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Dariosecq, Maxime | Plénacoste, Patricia | Berthaut, Florent | Kaci, Anis | Giraud, Frédéric

Edité par HAL CCSD

International audience. This paper aims to investigate the semantic perceptual space of synthetic tactile textures rendered via an ultrasonic based haptic tablet and the parameters influencing this space. Through a closed card sorting task, 30 participants had to explore 32 tactile-only textures and describe each texture using adjectives. A factorial analysis of mixed data was conducted. Results suggest a 2 dimensional space with tactile textures belonging to a continuum of rough to smooth adjectives. Influence of waveform and amplitude is shown to play an important role in perceiving a texture as smooth or rough, and spatial period is a possible modulator of different degrees of roughness or smoothness. Finally, we discuss how these findings can be used by designers on tactile feedback devices.

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