Evaluating Smartphone Vibration Patterns and Evoked Feelings using Semantic Differential Method

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10.2991/978-94-6463-388-7_6How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Tactile Interface; Vibration Pattern; Semantic Differential Method

Abstract

Vibration patterns or tactile patterns are widely used as user interfaces to alert users about messages from mobile devices. Previous studies suggested that elderly users can understand the meanings of up to three vibration patterns. However, if a vibration pattern evokes a sensory image or emotion, it can carry the message relating to that image or emotion; therefore, users are not required to learn more vibrational patterns associated with declarative knowledge. To confirm this hypothesis, we aimed to clarify the user feelings evoked by vibration patterns using the semantic differential method (SDM) and, as the first step, created six vibration patterns for investigation. SDM can quantify the feelings evoked by a subject, image, and concept. Questionnaire items were designed as fifteen adjective pairs using a seven-point Likert scale. Eighteen healthy male students participated. An analysis of the questionnaire data by exploratory factor analysis revealed three factors affecting the subjective feelings of vibration patterns, including dominant ones named “Nervousness” and “Calmness.” A verification experiment confirmed the validity of the two dominant factors using three vibration patterns characterized more by “Nervousness” and/or “Calmness.” Consequently, the method that characterized vibration patterns by dominant factors was useful for designing patterns that evoke common feelings.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Ryusei Fukuda
AU  - Shinji Miyake
AU  - Daiji Kobayashi
PY  - 2024
DA  - 2024/02/29
TI  - Evaluating Smartphone Vibration Patterns and Evoked Feelings using Semantic Differential Method
BT  - Proceedings of the Workshop on Computation: Theory and Practice (WCTP 2023)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 69
EP  - 81
SN  - 2589-4900
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6463-388-7_6
DO  - 10.2991/978-94-6463-388-7_6
ID  - Fukuda2024
ER  -