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SpinOcchio: Understanding Haptic-Visual Congruency of Skin-Slip in VR with a Dynamic Grip Controller

Myung Jin Kim , Neung Ryu , Wooje Chang , Michel Pahud , Mike Sinclair , Andrea Bianchi

This paper investigates the perception of haptic-visual congruency related to skin-slip on the fingertips in Virtual Reality (VR). The authors developed SpinOcchio, a handheld haptic controller that simulates the thickness and slipping of a virtual object between two fingers using spinning and pivoting disks to create tangential skin-slip movements. They established the baseline haptic discrimination threshold for skin-slip and examined how haptic realism of motion and thickness is perceived alongside varying visual cues in VR. The findings reveal that visual cues consistently dominate over haptic perception. The study suggests applications that utilize skin-slip and grip interaction to enhance realism in VR experiences.


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@inproceedings{10.1145/3491102.3517724,
  author = {Kim, Myung Jin and Ryu, Neung and Chang, Wooje and Pahud, Michel and Sinclair, Mike and Bianchi, Andrea},
  title = {SpinOcchio: Understanding Haptic-Visual Congruency of Skin-Slip in VR with a Dynamic Grip Controller},
  year = {2022},
  isbn = {9781450391573},
  publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
  address = {New York, NY, USA},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3491102.3517724},
  doi = {10.1145/3491102.3517724},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
  articleno = {433},
  numpages = {14},
  keywords = {Haptics, Virtual Reality, controller, normal force, skin-slip},
  location = {New Orleans, LA, USA},
  series = {CHI '22}
}
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