MUM 2024 was held in Stockholm, Sweden, from Dec 1-4, 2024. The demo was led by TU Delft master’s student Mark Kruijthoff as part of his master’s thesis, and is entitled “MobiTouch: Enhancing Pneumatic Wearable Haptics with Vibrotactile Actuation”.
MobiTouch is a wearable haptic device that integrates pneumatic and vibrotactile technologies to enhance touch sensations. The system addresses the slow responsiveness of small pneumatic components by compensating with vibrations, allowing for more diverse touch patterns. This work builds on several years of work by DIS on creating usable and useful haptic interactive systems that can meaningfully combine thermal, vibrotactile, and more recently pneumatic feedback to create better touch sensations and interactions.
This work stems from joint supervision of Mark Kruijthoff for his master’s thesis, who obtained his master’s degree in Industrial Design Engineering from TU Delft in August, 2024. The supervisory team consists of Abdallah El Ali (CWI / Utrecht University, NL), Himanshu Verma (TU Delft, NL), Sebastian Günther (Urban Software Institute, DE), and Kaspar Jansen (TU Delft, NL).
Other contributions to MUM 2024 from CWI included a full-day workshop on Envisioning Ubiquitous Biosignal Interaction with Multimedia, which was successfully held on Dec 1, 2024.
