Montano-Murillo, Roberto; Pittera, Dario; Frier, William; Georgiou, Orestis; Obrist, Marianna; Cornelio, Patricia; (2023) It Sounds Cool: Exploring Sonification of Mid-Air Haptic Textures Exploration on Texture Judgments, Body Perception, and Motor Behaviour. IEEE Transactions on Haptics pp. 1-12. 10.1109/toh.2023.3320492. (In press).

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Abstract

Ultrasonic mid-air haptic technology allows for the perceptual rendering of textured surfaces onto the user's hand. Unlike real textured surfaces, however, mid-air haptic feedback lacks implicit multisensory cues needed to reliably infer a texture's attributes (e.g., its roughness). In this paper, we combined mid-air haptic textures with congruent sound feedback to investigate how sonification could influence people's (1) explicit judgment of the texture attributes, (2) explicit sensations of their own hand, and (3) implicit motor behavior during haptic exploration. Our results showed that audio cues (presented solely or combined with haptics) influenced participants' judgment of the texture attributes (roughness, hardness, moisture and viscosity), produced some hand sensations (the feeling of having a hand smoother, softer, looser, more flexible, colder, wetter and more natural), and changed participants' speed (moving faster or slower) while exploring the texture. We then conducted a principal component analysis to better understand and visualize the found results and conclude with a short discussion on how audio-haptic associations can be used to create embodied experiences in emerging application scenarios in the metaverse.

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