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We present early results of a study on tactile acoustic devices as a somatosensory communication system for drivers. A series of studies were conducted to explore this alternative mode of tactile communication and to illustrate some of the perceptual differences between tactile audio and haptic vibrations. Results from this research suggest that speech and other sounds can express information to the body with little or no advance training, and that tactile acoustic signals can function as an augmentation to haptics, leveraging the complexity of human somatosensory interactions (HSI) to increase driver’s awareness of their environment using sound as a tactile sensation.
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Karam, M., Wilde, R., Langdon, P. (2017). Somatosensory Interactions: Exploring Complex Tactile-Audio Messages for Drivers. In: Nunes, I. (eds) Advances in Human Factors and System Interactions. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 497. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41956-5_12
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