TY - JOUR
T1 - TickleFoot
T2 - design, development and evaluation of a novel foot-tickling mechanism that can evoke laughter
AU - Elvitigala, Don Samitha
AU - Boldu, Roger
AU - Nanayakkara, Suranga
AU - Matthies, Denys J.C.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by Assistive Augmentation research grant under the Entrepreneurial Universities (EU) initiative of New Zealand. Authors’ addresses: D. S. Elvitigala, R. Boldu, and S. Nanayakkara, Augmented Human Lab, Auckland Bioengineering Institute, The University of Auckland, Auckland 1010, New Zealand; emails: {samitha, roger, suranga}@ahlab.org; D. J. C. Matthies, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Technical University of Applied Sciences Lübeck, Lübeck 23562, Germany; email: [email protected]. Permission to make digital or hard copies of part or all of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for third-party components of this work must be honored. For all other uses, contact the owner/author(s). © 2022 Copyright held by the owner/author(s). 1073-0516/2022/01-ART20 $15.00 https://doi.org/10.1145/3490496
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PY - 2022/6
Y1 - 2022/6
N2 - Tickling is a type of sensation that is associated with laughter, smiling, or other similar reactions. Psychology research has shown that tickling and laughter can significantly relieve stress. Although several tickling artifacts have been suggested in prior work, limited knowledge is available if those artifacts could evoke laughter. In this article, we aim at filling this gap by designing and developing a novel foot-tickling mechanism that can evoke laughter. We first developed an actuator that can create tickling sensations along the sole of the foot utilising magnet-driven brushes. Then, we conducted two studies to identify the most ticklish locations of the foot's sole and stimulation patterns that can evoke laughter. In a follow-up study with a new set of participants, we confirmed that the identified stimuli could evoke laughter. From the participants' feedback, we derived several applications that such a simulation could be useful. Finally, we embedded our actuators into a flexible insole, demonstrating the potential of a wearable tickling insole.
AB - Tickling is a type of sensation that is associated with laughter, smiling, or other similar reactions. Psychology research has shown that tickling and laughter can significantly relieve stress. Although several tickling artifacts have been suggested in prior work, limited knowledge is available if those artifacts could evoke laughter. In this article, we aim at filling this gap by designing and developing a novel foot-tickling mechanism that can evoke laughter. We first developed an actuator that can create tickling sensations along the sole of the foot utilising magnet-driven brushes. Then, we conducted two studies to identify the most ticklish locations of the foot's sole and stimulation patterns that can evoke laughter. In a follow-up study with a new set of participants, we confirmed that the identified stimuli could evoke laughter. From the participants' feedback, we derived several applications that such a simulation could be useful. Finally, we embedded our actuators into a flexible insole, demonstrating the potential of a wearable tickling insole.
KW - elciting emotions
KW - eliciting laughter
KW - fun
KW - haptics
KW - laughter
KW - magnetic locomotion
KW - Tickling
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85124792084&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3490496
DO - 10.1145/3490496
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85124792084
SN - 1073-0516
VL - 29
JO - ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction
JF - ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction
IS - 3
M1 - 20
ER -