@inproceedings{befff28e845546ff8d19b036001929a9,
title = "Touch Through Sound: Ring-Mounted Auditory Pseudo-Haptics for Material Perception",
abstract = "We present Touch Through Sound, a ring-mounted auditory pseudo-haptics technique for material perception during real touch. Our method parameterizes texture cues (e.g., roughness and granularity) and continuously modulates contact sound from interaction dynamics (speed and a pressure proxy), while a ring-mounted speaker keeps audio co-located with the fingertip. In a within-subject study (N=6), our action-contingent synthesis outperformed a static playback baseline in perceived action-sound congruency, and ring-mounted output improved spatial congruency over headphones. Overall, combining action contingency and near-finger audio yielded the most realistic material impressions.",
keywords = "Pseudo-Haptics, Ring, Sound Feedback, VR",
author = "Zhengte Cai and Chiyue Wang and Yumiao Wang and Jinghe Yu and Chen Li and Zhanpeng Jin and Yang Gao",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2026 Copyright held by the owner/author(s).; Extended Abtracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2026 ; Conference date: 13-04-2026 Through 17-04-2026",
year = "2026",
month = apr,
day = "13",
doi = "10.1145/3772363.3798554",
language = "English",
series = "Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings ",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery ",
editor = "Nuria Oliver and Shamma, \{David A.\} and Heloisa Candello and Pablo Cesar and Pedro Lopes and Valentino Artizzu and Fiona Draxler and Gustavo Lopez and Reinschluessel, \{Anke V.\} and Xin Tong and \{Toups Dugas\}, \{Phoebe O.\}",
booktitle = "CHI 2026 - Extended Abtracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems",
address = "United States",
}