Haptic Logos: Insight into the Feasibility of Digital Haptic Branding

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Companies design brands to invoke distinct perceptions in customers about their products. Currently digital consumers experience the identity of a brand subconsciously through only visual and aural logos. However, the sense of touch is a valuable conduit for establishing strong connections. Although haptic properties (e.g. engrossing textures) are part of a brand’s identity in the physical world, the digital world lacks this presence. In this paper we present the concept of creating haptic logos for brands that can be digitally distributed to consumers. To achieve this task, we utilize vibrotactile haptic feedback. Haptic logos for brands were created by varying frequency, waveform and temporal properties resulting in distinct vibration patterns. We conducted two user studies: (1) assignment of appropriate haptic logos to brands by participants, and (2) judgment of the logos based on user experience and emotional response. Based on these studies, the applicability of haptic logos has been discussed.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationHaptics : Science, Technology, and Applications - 11th International Conference, EuroHaptics 2018, Proceedings
EditorsDomenico Prattichizzo, Emanuele Ruffaldi, Antonio Frisoli, Hiroyuki Shinoda, Hong Z. Tan
Number of pages13
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Publication date2018
Pages696-708
ISBN (Print)9783319933986
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2018
Externally publishedYes
Event11th International Conference on Haptics: Science, Technology, and Applications, EuroHaptics 2018 - Pisa, Italy
Duration: 13 Jun 201816 Jun 2018

Conference

Conference11th International Conference on Haptics: Science, Technology, and Applications, EuroHaptics 2018
LandItaly
ByPisa
Periode13/06/201816/06/2018
SeriesLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume10894 LNCS
ISSN0302-9743

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
Acknowledgments. This work was supported by the NRF of Korea through the Global Frontier R&D Program (2012M3A6A3056074) and by the MSIP through IITP (No. 2017-0-00179, HD Haptic Technology for Hyper Reality Contents).

Publisher Copyright:
© Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018.

    Research areas

  • Digital haptic logos, Haptic branding, Haptic icons, Vibrotactile

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