EMS icons: conveying information by analogy to enhance communication through electrical muscle stimulation

Tilman Dingler; Takashi Goto; Benjamin Tag; Kai Kunze

doi:10.1145/3123024.3129275

EMS icons: conveying information by analogy to enhance communication through electrical muscle stimulation

Tilman Dingler, Takashi Goto, Benjamin Tag, Kai Kunze

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Abstract

Electrical Muscle Stimulation (EMS) has recently received an increased amount of attention from the HCI community. It has been used to remote control users for navigation and instrument playing, but also as a method to convey haptic feedback in VR, for example. As EMS devices become commercially available and application research continues, we explore EMS as a modality to convey information through actuation and as a means to induce and communicate emotions and moods. In this position paper, we present the results from two focus groups on using EMS for interpersonal communication as a way to send and receive emoticons through electrical stimulation. We argue that so-called "EMS Icons" have the potential to become part of multimedia experiences and more broadly of User Interfaces as a haptic variant in analogy to visual and auditory icons.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers
Editors	Jason Wiese, Jeff Nichols
Place of Publication	New York NY USA
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	732-739
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450351904
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3123024.3129275
Publication status	Published - 2017
Externally published	Yes
Event	Workshop on Ubiquitous Technologies for Augmenting The Human Mind 2017 - Maui, United States of America Duration: 11 Sept 2017 → 11 Sept 2017 Conference number: 4th https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3123024.3124459 (Proceedings) https://ubicomp.org/ubicomp2017/workshops.html (Website)

Conference

Conference	Workshop on Ubiquitous Technologies for Augmenting The Human Mind 2017
Abbreviated title	WAHM 2017
Country/Territory	United States of America
City	Maui
Period	11/09/17 → 11/09/17
Internet address	https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3123024.3124459 (Proceedings) https://ubicomp.org/ubicomp2017/workshops.html (Website)

Keywords

Emoji
Emoticon
EMS
EMS Icon
Immersion
Remote communication

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Dingler, T., Goto, T., Tag, B., & Kunze, K. (2017). EMS icons: conveying information by analogy to enhance communication through electrical muscle stimulation. In J. Wiese, & J. Nichols (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers (pp. 732-739). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/3123024.3129275

Dingler, Tilman ; Goto, Takashi ; Tag, Benjamin et al. / EMS icons : conveying information by analogy to enhance communication through electrical muscle stimulation. Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers. editor / Jason Wiese ; Jeff Nichols. New York NY USA : Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2017. pp. 732-739

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Dingler, T, Goto, T, Tag, B & Kunze, K 2017, EMS icons: conveying information by analogy to enhance communication through electrical muscle stimulation. in J Wiese & J Nichols (eds), Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York NY USA, pp. 732-739, Workshop on Ubiquitous Technologies for Augmenting The Human Mind 2017, Maui, Hawaii, United States of America, 11/09/17. https://doi.org/10.1145/3123024.3129275

EMS icons: conveying information by analogy to enhance communication through electrical muscle stimulation. / Dingler, Tilman; Goto, Takashi; Tag, Benjamin et al.
Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers. ed. / Jason Wiese; Jeff Nichols. New York NY USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2017. p. 732-739.

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Dingler T, Goto T, Tag B, Kunze K. EMS icons: conveying information by analogy to enhance communication through electrical muscle stimulation. In Wiese J, Nichols J, editors, Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers. New York NY USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). 2017. p. 732-739 doi: 10.1145/3123024.3129275

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