Authoring haptic feedback has traditionally relied on specifying explicit parameters, with recent efforts shifting toward text-based generation. However, bodily expression is often preverbal, text alone is insufficient to capture its subtle nuances or to support rapid, exploratory articulation of as-yet-unnamed sensations. We present Scribbl, a tool for authoring multimodal haptics, built around sketching. A designer starts from a felt moment, sketches it as a pattern, refines it in words or by hand while feeling it on the body, and collects patterns that are then composed across body-worn actuators into a whole sequence, all without entering explicit parameters or wiring logic.
@inproceedings{Kim2026Sketching,
author = {Kim, Heeji and Mun, Heeju and Kim, Ji-Sung and Kyung, Ki-Uk and Bianchi, Andrea},
title = {Sketching With Haptics: Authoring Multimodal Soft-Haptic Cues Without Explicit Parameters},
year = {2026},
booktitle = {Proceedings of AsiaHaptics 2026},
month = {November },
date = {2026-11-17/2026-11-20},
}