ExudedVestibule
Enhancing cutaneous haptics at several body sites by synchronizing galvanic vestibular stimulation with wind
- Period
- 2022–2025
- Field
- Galvanic vestibular stimulation / mid-air haptics / HCI
- Role
- First author; design and implementation
Summary
A system that extends air-cannon mid-air haptics with galvanic vestibular stimulation (GVS). When GVS induces a sense of body sway and wind is presented in synchrony, the perceived intensity of the wind increases.
Wind arrival and the induced sway are synchronized to ±2 ms. A GVS hardware kit was also published in HardwareX (2025).
Specifications
- Configuration
- Air cannon + galvanic vestibular stimulation (GVS)
- Hardware
- Custom GVS device (48 g), air cannon
- Control
- Arduino, Python, BLE
- Method
- Threshold measurement, motion capture
Operation
- Input
- Automatic triggering and synchronization by the system
- Output
- Enhanced airflow perception
- Synchronization
- ±2 ms
Figures
Videos
Outputs
- ExudedVestibule: Enhancing Mid-air Haptics through Galvanic Vestibular Stimulation — ACM SIGGRAPH 2023 Posters
- Design and evaluation of a voltage-controlled current source for galvanic vestibular stimulation research — HardwareX 22 (Journal)
- ACM SIGGRAPH 2023 Student Research Competition, semi-finalist (top 16%)
- Application: a pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka — a viewing experience adding a sense of sway to footage of life aboard a ship (2025)