Tactile-Visualization
Master's Research & Thesis on Haptic Design and Data Visualization.
Explores the concept of using new "mediums" of Data Interpretation and Visualization in the form of Tactile Response.
Showcase Demo
How it works
Large dataset is obtained online and stored into the sqlite .db for quick reading and analyzing. Data can then be sent and display in 2 modes:
- Data Visualization via
matplotlib - Haptic/Tactile Data Visualization (via Full Body Tactile Suit)
User Interface (with Tactile Suit Visualizer for Debugging)
Components of how it works
Haptic Suit and software used in this demo:
- B-Haptic Tactoc Suit
- Haptic Player & Communication Code with Tactile Suit (forked from https://github.com/bhaptics/tact-python)
Other Functionality (and Preliminary Testing)
Other Data display using Tactile Response is also being explored, such as "column-mode" and "dot-point" mode.
Under this format, data is being displayed similar to "audio" file in temporal pattern from right to left, with "intensity" of tactile vibration correlating to the % of the data.
