BoEs: Attachable Haptics Bits on Gaming Controller for Designing Interactive Gameplay
Booth no: vrshwcse_0027

Summary: Gaming controller is a general way for playing in the immersive virtual reality (VR) game. With haptics technology and head-mounted display (HMD), user can have an enhanced immersive experience when they manipulate in the virtual environment. Currently, the VR controller only provide vibration feedback when player interact with the virtual object. For enhancing the touch experience, adding multiple tactile sensations is one of the quick and useful methods for designing interactive gameplay with haptics. Additionally, the designer and haptician need a rapidly prototyped and demonstration to validate the gameplay, which also is a key for designing haptic experience. In this paper, we present Bits of Elements (BoEs), an attachable module system on gaming controller, which allow the game designer to rapidly prototype their VR controller with tactile sensations, such as wind, wet, heat and motion feedback. With this system, game designer can explore the interactive gameplay with haptics in VR by replacement and combination of several modules.

Presenter(s): Ping-Hsuan Han, National Taiwan University
Yang-Sheng Chen, National Taiwan University
Kai-Ti Yang, National Taipei University of Technology
Wei-Shu Chuan, National Taipei University of Technology
Yu-Tong Chang, National Taipei University of Technology
Ting-Min Yang, National Taipei University of Technology
Jia-Yan Lin, National Taipei University of Technology
Kong-Chang Lee, Tamkang University
Chiao-En Hsieh, National Taiwan University
Lai-Chung Lee, National Taipei University of Technology
Chien-Hsing Chou, Tamkang University
Yi-Ping Hung, National Taiwan University