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Tactile alerts have the benefit here because you don't use your sense of touch while you're driving, even though (skin) is the biggest sensory organ. |
This research represents a whole new way of thinking about the design of warning signals for car drivers, |
Touch is completely unused at the moment, |
Vibrations are cheap, they are very personal and they are pleasant compared to sounds. They automatically grab your attention, and they are implicitly directional. If you feel something from your belly you feel it is out there in front, if you feel it in your back you know you should look behind, |
We can use attention-grabbing signals in cars but they are very irritating for the driver. The more attention-grabbing a signal is, the more irritating it is for the driver, |
We think that touch is so completely unused at the moment. We need something else other than sound and I think touch is the really exciting thing to work on, |
We think the best thing in the future will be to combine vibration plus auditory warning signals, |