BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:Linklings LLC
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:Asia/Tokyo
X-LIC-LOCATION:Asia/Tokyo
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+0900
TZOFFSETTO:+0900
TZNAME:JST
DTSTART:18871231T000000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20250110T023313Z
LOCATION:Hall B5 (1)\, B Block\, Level 5
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Tokyo:20241206T152700
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Tokyo:20241206T154100
UID:siggraphasia_SIGGRAPH Asia 2024_sess148_papers_528@linklings.com
SUMMARY:ThermOuch: A Wearable Thermo-Haptic Device for Inducing Pain Sensa
 tion in Virtual Reality through Thermal Grill Illusion
DESCRIPTION:Technical Papers\n\nHaichen Gao (City University of Hong Kong)
 , Shaoyu Cai (National University of Singapore), and Yuhong Wu and Kening 
 Zhu (City University of Hong Kong)\n\nExisting research showed that unplea
 sant haptic feedback, such as pain, could enhance the user experience and 
 performance in various scenarios (e.g. entertainment and training). This p
 aper introduces ThermOuch, a wearable thermohaptic device that leverages t
 he thermal grill illusion (TGI) to simulate pain sensations in virtual rea
 lity (VR) without causing actual invasive/non-invasive harm. Our results o
 f the user-perception experiments revealed that higher temperature-changin
 g rates, particularly with increased warming, were associated with more in
 tense pain perceived by the participants through our system. Furthermore, 
 a higher ratio of warm-to-cool temperature transitions reduced the sensati
 on of coldness prior to pain. Our experiments also showed that introducing
  an additional stimulus unit potentially heightened pain perception, and a
 ltering the spacing between stimulus units modified the perceived pain are
 a. Lastly, the user study in VR demonstrated that ThermOuch significantly 
 enhanced the sense of presence and body ownership for the participants, as
  well as elevated their biosignal-indicated arousal levels.\n\nRegistratio
 n Category: Full Access, Full Access Supporter\n\nLanguage Format: English
  Language\n\nSession Chair: Peng Song (Singapore University of Technology 
 and Design (SUTD))
URL:https://asia.siggraph.org/2024/program/?id=papers_528&sess=sess148
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR