Tactile-Visualization

Master's Research & Thesis on Haptic Design and Data Visualization.
Explores the concept of using new "mediums" of Data Interpretation and Visualization in the form of Tactile Response.

Showcase Demo

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How it works

Large dataset is obtained online and stored into the sqlite .db for quick reading and analyzing. Data can then be sent and display in 2 modes:

1. Data Visualization via matplotlib
2. Haptic/Tactile Data Visualization (via Full Body Tactile Suit)

User Interface (with Tactile Suit Visualizer for Debugging)

Components of how it works

Haptic Suit and software used in this demo:

• B-Haptic Tactoc Suit
• Haptic Player & Communication Code with Tactile Suit (forked from https://github.com/bhaptics/tact-python)

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Other Functionality (and Preliminary Testing)

Other Data display using Tactile Response is also being explored, such as "column-mode" and "dot-point" mode.

Under this format, data is being displayed similar to "audio" file in temporal pattern from right to left, with "intensity" of tactile vibration correlating to the % of the data.

Column Mode Data representation using Tactile Suit:

Dot-Point Mode (Inital Testing) of parsing data and output with Intensity based on Highest % of data value within the set

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