Composing vibrotactile music: A multi-sensory experience with the emoti-chair

The Emoti-Chair is a novel technology to enhance entertainment through vibrotactile stimulation. We assessed the experience of this technology in two workshops. In the first workshop, deaf film-makers experimented with creating vibetracks for a movie clip using a professional movie editing software. In the second workshop, trained opera singers sang and `felt' their voice through the Emoti-Chair. Participants in both workshops generally found the overall experience to be exciting and they were motivated to use the Chair for upcoming projects.

• Publication year

  2012

• Venue

  IEEE Haptics Symposium

• Publication date

  2012-03-04

• Fields of study

  Art, Computer Science

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  DOI 10.1109/HAPTIC.2012.6183839arXiv 1509.05452
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