Walking over virtual grounds

We make use of a pair of sandals to collect walking and feet gestures through force sensors, and to provide instantaneous vibrotactile as well as auditory feedback respectively through haptic actuators underfoot and shoe-mounted small loudspeakers.
In this way, sensations of aggregate and deformable grounds such as snow, gravel, sand and mud, can be experienced by users walking over an homogeneous solid floor.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• laval
• virtual
• revolution
• 2010
• sandals
• shoes
• augmented
• haptic
• auditory
• feedback
• physical-models
• vibrotactile
• audio
• sound synthesis
• mud
• snow
• Pure Data
• real time
• Arduino
• sensors
• force
• actuators
• embedded
• NIW
• natural interactive walking