New Way to Experience Soccer Games via Mobile Phone

Researchers have developed technology that synchronizes the movement of a soccer ball in the field with a mobile phone so that the phone vibrates whenever the ball is kicked. Different kinds of vibrations indicate the ball’s location and which team has possession. The extended applications of this technology could be interesting.

Although rendering rich information, such as soccer games, by vibration on mobile phones is rather new for researchers and users, most participants responded positively to the vibrotactile concept of live game information. In the future, the researchers hope to integrate vibration with visual and audio information to integrate the three basic senses of touch, sight, and hearing, in order to give users a richer emotional experience.

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