AirRacket

2022 | NTU HCI Lab, Derrek Chow

We present AirRacket, perceptual modeling and design of ungrounded, directional force feedback for virtual racket sports. Using compressed air propulsion jets to provide directional impact forces, we iteratively designed for three popular sports that span a wide range of force magnitudes: ping-pong, badminton, and tennis.

Publication

Ching-Yi Tsai, I-Lun Tsai, Chao-Jung Lai, Derrek Chow, Lauren Wei, Lung-Pan Cheng, Mike Y. Chen. AirRacket: Perceptual design of Ungrounded, Directional Force Feedback to Improve Virtual Racket Sports Experiences. The ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2022). 15 pages.
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Press

MIXED. AirRacket: Researches Use Air to Simulate Haptic Feedback in VR Sports. May 11, 2022.

VR Times. AirRacket: Researches Use Air to Simulate Haptic Feedback in VR Sports. May 13, 2022.

NewScientist. Virtual tennis racket uses air jet to recreate feel of hitting a ball. May 10, 2022.