VibViz : Visualizing a Vibration Library

This paper describes VibViz, an interactive visualization system for a vibration library. The high level goal of VibViz is to support 1) end users to explore and browse the vibration library, and 2) researchers to investigate properties of vibrations. The system visualizes physical, sensory, emotional, metaphor, and usage example vibration attributes using three multi-form views. We employed linked-highlighting to coordinate multiple views in the system. Further, We designed a saturation-coded vibration envelope for more intuitive end-user experience in VibViz. Some preliminary end user feedback suggests VibViz to be an effective tool for exploring vibrations. As the next step, we plan to use VibViz as a research prototype to investigate end-users’ perception of various vibration taxonomies.