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Vibrotactile Similarity Perception in Crowdsourced and Lab Studies

  • Ramzi Abou Chahine
  • , Dongjae Kwon
  • , Chungman Lim
  • , Gunhyuk Park
  • , Hasti Seifi

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

Abstract

Crowdsourcing can enable rapid data collection for haptics research, yet little is known about its validity in comparison to controlled lab experiments. Furthermore, no data exists on how different smartphone platforms impact the crowdsourcing results. To answer these questions, we conducted four vibrotactile (VT) similarity perception studies on iOS and Android smartphones in the lab and through Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk). Participants rated the pairwise similarities of 14 rhythmic VT patterns on their smartphones or a lab device. The similarity ratings from the lab and MTurk experiments suggested a very strong correlation for iOS devices (rs= 0.9 ) and a lower but still strong correlation for Android phones (rs= 0.68 ). In addition, we found a stronger correlation between the crowdsourced iOS and Android ratings (rs= 0.78 ) compared to the correlation between the iOS and Android data in the lab (rs= 0.65 ). We provide further insights into these correlations using the perceptual spaces obtained from the four datasets. Our results provide preliminary evidence for the validity of crowdsourced VT similarity studies, especially on iOS devices.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationHaptics
Subtitle of host publicationScience, Technology, Applications - 13th International Conference on Human Haptic Sensing and Touch Enabled Computer Applications, EuroHaptics 2022, Proceedings
EditorsHasti Seifi, Astrid M. Kappers, Oliver Schneider, Knut Drewing, Claudio Pacchierotti, Alireza Abbasimoshaei, Gijs Huisman, Thorsten A. Kern
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages255-263
Number of pages9
ISBN (Print)9783031062483
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022
Externally publishedYes
Event13th International Conference on Human Haptic Sensing and Touch Enabled Computer Applications, EuroHaptics 2022 - Hamburg, Germany
Duration: May 22 2022May 25 2022

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume13235 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference13th International Conference on Human Haptic Sensing and Touch Enabled Computer Applications, EuroHaptics 2022
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityHamburg
Period5/22/225/25/22

Keywords

  • Crowdsourcing
  • Haptics
  • Similarity perception

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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