Wind-Blaster: a Wearable Propeller-based Prototype that Provides Ungrounded Force-Feedback

Ungrounded haptic force-feedback is a crucial element for applications that aim to immerse users in virtual environments where mobility is important, like Virtual Reality games. In this work, we present a wearable interface that generates force-feedback by spinning two drone propellers mounted on a wrist. The device is interfaced with a game running in Unity and can render different haptic stimuli mapped to four weapons. A simple evaluation with users demonstrates the feasibility of the proposed approach.

@inproceedings{10.1145/3214907.3214915,
  author = {Je, Seungwoo and Lee, Hyelip and Kim, Myung Jin and Bianchi, Andrea},
  title = {Wind-blaster: a wearable propeller-based prototype that provides ungrounded force-feedback},
  year = {2018},
  isbn = {9781450358101},
  publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
  address = {New York, NY, USA},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3214907.3214915},
  doi = {10.1145/3214907.3214915},
  booktitle = {ACM SIGGRAPH 2018 Emerging Technologies},
  articleno = {23},
  numpages = {2},
  keywords = {wearable, ungrounded force feedback, propeller, haptic feedback},
  location = {Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada},
  series = {SIGGRAPH '18}
}

Additional Publications

Seungwoo Je, Hyelip Lee, Myung Jin Kim, Minkyeong Lee, Yoonji Kim, Youngkyung Choi, and Andrea Bianchi. 2018. Wind-blaster. In interactions 26, 1 (January - February 2019), 14–15. https://doi.org/10.1145/3292075

Seungwoo Je, Hyelip Lee, Myung Jin Kim, Minkyeong Lee, Yoonji Kim, Youngkyung Choi, Andrea Bianchi, Brian Yu-Jen Chiang, Ai-Hsuan Chou, Dominik Fink, Jannick Lenz, Paul Raschke, and Mario Rieker. 2018. Demo hour. In interactions 26, 1 (January - February 2019), 8–11. https://doi.org/10.1145/3292484