Grasping the Future: Identifying Potential Applications for Mid-Air Haptics in the Home

Mid-air haptics is an emerging technology that can produce a sense of touch in mid-air using ultrasound. While the use of mid-air haptics has a lot of potential in various domains such as automotive, virtual reality or professional healthcare, we suggest that the home is an equally promising domain for such applications. We organized an ideation workshop with 15 participants preceded by a sensitizing phase to identify possible applications for mid-air haptics within the home. From the extensive set of ideas that resulted from this, five themes emerged: guidance, confirmation, information, warning and changing status. As general 'application categories', we propose that they can provide a useful basis for the future design and development of mid-air haptic applications in the home, and possibly also beyond.

ISBN:978-1-4503-5971-9

Publication year:2019

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Authors from:Higher Education

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