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| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | CHI '15 |
| Subtitle of host publication | Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems |
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) |
| Pages | 2505-2514 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| ISBN (electronic) | 9781450331456 |
| Publication status | Published - 18 Apr 2015 |
| Event | 33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2015 - Seoul, Korea, Republic of Duration: 18 Apr 2015 → 23 Apr 2015 |
Abstract
Pedestrian navigation systems require users to perceive, interpret, and react to navigation information. This can tax cognition as navigation information competes with information from the real world. We propose actuated navigation, a new kind of pedestrian navigation in which the user does not need to attend to the navigation task at all. An actuation signal is directly sent to the human motor system to influence walking direction. To achieve this goal we stimulate the sartorius muscle using electrical muscle stimulation. The rotation occurs during the swing phase of the leg and can easily be counteracted. The user therefore stays in control. We discuss the properties of actuated navigation and present a lab study on identifying basic parameters of the technique as well as an outdoor study in a park. The results show that our approach changes a user's walking direction by about 16/m on average and that the system can successfully steer users in a park with crowded areas, distractions, obstacles, and uneven ground.
Keywords
- Actuated navigation, Electrical muscle stimulation, Haptic feedback, Pedestrian navigation, Wearable devices
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Computer Science(all)
- Software
- Computer Science(all)
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Computer Science(all)
- Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
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CHI '15: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2015. p. 2505-2514.
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AU - Pfeiffer, Max
AU - Dünte, Tim
AU - Schneegass, Stefan
AU - Alt, Florian
AU - Rohs, Michael
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © Copyright 2015 ACM. Copyright: Copyright 2015 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2015/4/18
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N2 - Pedestrian navigation systems require users to perceive, interpret, and react to navigation information. This can tax cognition as navigation information competes with information from the real world. We propose actuated navigation, a new kind of pedestrian navigation in which the user does not need to attend to the navigation task at all. An actuation signal is directly sent to the human motor system to influence walking direction. To achieve this goal we stimulate the sartorius muscle using electrical muscle stimulation. The rotation occurs during the swing phase of the leg and can easily be counteracted. The user therefore stays in control. We discuss the properties of actuated navigation and present a lab study on identifying basic parameters of the technique as well as an outdoor study in a park. The results show that our approach changes a user's walking direction by about 16/m on average and that the system can successfully steer users in a park with crowded areas, distractions, obstacles, and uneven ground.
AB - Pedestrian navigation systems require users to perceive, interpret, and react to navigation information. This can tax cognition as navigation information competes with information from the real world. We propose actuated navigation, a new kind of pedestrian navigation in which the user does not need to attend to the navigation task at all. An actuation signal is directly sent to the human motor system to influence walking direction. To achieve this goal we stimulate the sartorius muscle using electrical muscle stimulation. The rotation occurs during the swing phase of the leg and can easily be counteracted. The user therefore stays in control. We discuss the properties of actuated navigation and present a lab study on identifying basic parameters of the technique as well as an outdoor study in a park. The results show that our approach changes a user's walking direction by about 16/m on average and that the system can successfully steer users in a park with crowded areas, distractions, obstacles, and uneven ground.
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