MattIn a few weeks I'll be heading to #CHI2026 to present our paper "Design Explorations of Instruments and Interactions with Bidirectional Haptic Couplings" (by me & @amcpherson). The paper details a design study where we gave digital musical instrument designers a "HaptiCoupler" kit that we created, which can enable simultaneous vibrotactile output and vibration sensing. Read more about it here: https://davisonaudio.github.io/chi2026/
Design Explorations of Instruments and Interactions with Bidirectional Haptic Couplings
Exploring the design of digital musical instruments with bidirectional tactile interaction through a user study. This study investigates the potential design and interaction implications when tradional unidirectional mapping paradigms are swapped out for bidirectional haptic interaction.
Yann Seznec