A review and meta analysis of vibrotactile and visual information displays / Linda R. Elliott [and others].

Format:

Book

Government document

Contributor:

Elliott, Linda R.

Coovert, Michael D.

Prewett, Matthew

Walvord, Ashley G.

Saboe, Kristin.

Johnson, Ryan

U.S. Army Research Laboratory

Series:

ARL-TR (Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md.) ; 4955.

ARL-TR ; 4955

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Information display systems.

Human-computer interaction.

Tactile graphics.

Data Display.

Medical Subjects:

Data Display.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 27 pages)

Place of Publication:

Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD : U.S. Army Research Laboratory, [2009]

Summary:

Many studies have investigated the impact of vibrotactile cues on task performance, but the wide range of cue and task types have made findings difficult to interpret without a quantitative synthesis. We provide a systematic review of studies on vibrotactile cue effectiveness with regard to task performance, organized by types of comparisons and cue complexity. Forty-five studies met the criteria for meta-analytic comparisons. Three types of comparisons were made: (1) the addition of a new tactile cue to a "baseline" condition, (2) the comparison of tactile cues to visual cues representing the same information, and (3) the comparison of visual cues compared to a multimodal combination of tactile and visual cues representing the same information. The level of cue information complexity was also examined as a moderator. When added to a baseline task or existing visual cues, tactile cues enhanced task performance. When tactile cues replaced visual cues, however, effects are attenuated and moderated by cue information complexity. Tactile alerts are effective when replacing visual alerts, but tactile direction cues do not improve performance when replacing visual direction cues. This meta-analysis of tactile applications underscores the benefits of vibrotactile and multimodal displays, highlights conditions in which tactile cues are particularly effective, and identifies areas in need of further investigation

Notes:

Title from title screen (viewed May 13, 2010).

"September 2009."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 19-25).

OCLC:

495784004

Access Restriction:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE.