Motion Information Transmission For On-Neck Communication

This paper introduces a novel form of communication via a combination of muscle sensing by electromyography and stimulation via a skin-stretcher device as a motion monitoring system. After sensing muscle activity through electromyography, the skin-stretcher device provides a skin sensation that confidentially informs or induces movements of the user who wears the device. This paper also introduces methods for translating muscle activities to the skin-stretch sensations, and additional filtering to improve the performance. In this study, we conducted preliminary experiments that demonstrate the potential of our system design.