Psychoacoustically synthesized haptic feedback Seminar

Most of the information we perceive through our sensory systems are heavily filtered before reaching a conscious appraisal. In this talk I present an approach for designing vibrotactile haptic feedback with the limitations of both the tactile sensory system and the brain in mind. Specifically, I will discuss the use a two-pronged approach wherein psychoacoustical features extracted from musical audio signals are used to inform a re-synthesis in combination with a classical noise vocoder. This leads to a haptic feedback signal which is designed to take advantages of innate and intuitive aspects of tactile perception.