"Baby it's cold outside": the influence of ambient temperature and humidity on thermal feedback

Martin Halvey; Graham Wilson; Stephen A. Brewster; Stephen A. Hughes

doi:10.1145/2207676.2207779

"Baby it's cold outside": the influence of ambient temperature and humidity on thermal feedback

Martin Halvey, Graham Wilson, Stephen A. Brewster, Stephen A. Hughes

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution book

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Abstract

Thermal feedback is a new area of research in HCI and, as such, there has been very little investigation of the impact of environmental factors on its use for interaction. To address this shortcoming we conducted an experiment to investigate how ambient temperature and humidity could affect the usability of thermal feedback. If environmental conditions affect perception significantly, then it may not be suitable for mobile interactions. Evaluations were conducted outdoors in varying environmental conditions over a period of 5 months. Results showed that the ambient temperature has a significant impact on people's ability to detect stimuli and also their perception of these stimuli. Humidity has a negligible effect for most humidity values. Despite this, previous thermal feedback design recommendations still hold in varying temperatures and humidities showing that thermal feedback is a useful tool for mobile interaction.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Place of Publication	New York
Pages	715-724
Number of pages	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2207676.2207779
Publication status	Published - 5 May 2012
Externally published	Yes
Event	SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: CHI 2012 - Austin, United States Duration: 5 May 2012 → 10 May 2012

Conference

Conference	SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Country	United States
City	Austin
Period	5/05/12 → 10/05/12

Keywords

thermal feedback
mobile interaction
environment
temperature
humidity
ambient
non-visual feedback

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Halvey, M., Wilson, G., Brewster, S. A., & Hughes, S. A. (2012). "Baby it's cold outside": the influence of ambient temperature and humidity on thermal feedback. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 715-724). https://doi.org/10.1145/2207676.2207779

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Halvey, M, Wilson, G, Brewster, SA & Hughes, SA 2012, "Baby it's cold outside": the influence of ambient temperature and humidity on thermal feedback. in Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York, pp. 715-724, SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Austin, United States, 5/05/12. https://doi.org/10.1145/2207676.2207779

"Baby it's cold outside" : the influence of ambient temperature and humidity on thermal feedback. / Halvey, Martin; Wilson, Graham; Brewster, Stephen A.; Hughes, Stephen A.

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York, 2012. p. 715-724.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution book

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