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CHAPTER 71
Pleasurable Design of
Haptic Icons
Wonil Hwang
Soongsil University
Seoul, Korea
wonil@ssu.ac.kr
Jihong Hwang
Seoul National University of Science & Technology
Seoul, Korea
hwangjh@snut.ac.kr
Taezoon Park
Nanyang Technological University
Singapore
TZPark@ntu.edu.sg
ABSTRACT
Haptic icons are the icons based on haptic stimuli, from which users can
intuitively perceive information, such as abstract concepts and emotional contents.
In this study, we focused on haptic icons as a medium of conveying emotions, and
tried to find whether haptic icons can deliver to users a specific emotion, such as
pleasure or unpleasure, distinctively by investigating user’s perception to different
types of vibrotactile stimuli in term of pleasure. ...