Start Year
2009
End Year
2014

To guide walking rate, we detect cadence and cue individual steps with minimal attentional impact. This work took several steps:

1. Detecting sensitivity at various places on the body to tactile cues during walking

2. Measuring cadence in realtime with a commodity smartphone that is robust to location on the body.

3. Establishing if people's walking cadence be cued with attention, and ...

4. If it still works when they are distracted in various ways. 

SPIN People
Idin Karuei
Oliver Schneider
Mike Wu
Publications
Karuei, I. and MacLean, K.E., “Susceptibility to Periodic Vibrotactile Guidance of Human Cadence,” in Proc. of IEEE Haptic Symposium (HAPTICS '14), Houston, pp. 141 - 146, 2014.
Karuei, I., "Periodic Vibrotactile Guidance,", Ph.D. Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2014.
Karuei, I., Schneider, O., Stern, B., Chuang, M., MacLean, K.M., "RRACE: Robust Realtime Algorithm for Cadence Estimation," Pervasive and Mobile Computing, vol. 13, 2014, pp. 52-66.
Karuei, I., Hazelton, T. W., MacLean, K. E., Baumann, M., and Pan, M. (2010). “Presenting a Biometrically-Driven Haptic Interaction Loop.” in Proc of CHI '10, Workshop on Whole Body Interaction. Atlanta, GA, 4 pages, April 2010.
Tags
mobile
perception