TY - CONF TI - Design and Prototyping of a Wearable Kinesthetic Haptic Feedback System to Support Mid-Air Interactions in Virtual Environments AU - Sagia, Ekati Ekaterini Maria AU - Stavrakis, Modestos A2 - Florez, Hector A2 - Misra, Sanjay T3 - Communications in Computer and Information Science AB - This paper focuses on the study of mid-air gestural interaction and haptic means of immersion in virtual environments to design a wearable kinesthetic feedback system based on vibro-tactile feedback mechanisms. The paper gives special attention to the design and prototyping of the wearable system and the use of low-cost optical hand tracking devices. The complete implementation of the system is comprised of a motion tracking sensor, used to identify and monitor the user’s hand position and gestures, and a wearable device based on low-cost microcontroller technologies and vibration motors for producing the haptic rendering. The wearable device is mounted on the user’s hand (fingers, palm and wrist), with the aim of producing feedback in real time when interacting with virtual objects in virtual environments. In this paper we present the design of the wearable kinesthetic feedback system, the implementation of the haptic rendering mechanisms and a preliminary evaluation of its usability from a user experience perspective. C1 - Cham C3 - Applied Informatics DA - 2020/// PY - 2020 DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-61702-8_26 DP - Springer Link SP - 377 EP - 391 LA - en PB - Springer International Publishing SN - 978-3-030-61702-8 KW - Haptics KW - Mid-air interaction KW - Vibro-tactile feedback KW - Wearables KW - _publication ER -