Multi-Sensory Feedback (3) - By Yasmin Aftab

Picture 1 presents photo from the multi-sensory room.
Source: http://www.visualvoicepro.com/

Advantages of multi-sensory technology:

. Technology allows to joining visual, sound, tactile and other components.
. The message or information can be passing by using different ways.
. Much more people can better understand the message, because it is send by using various effects.
· Statistics shows that the systems, which use this technique, are more efficiency, reliability and give more users’ satisfaction.
· The feedback of integrator method gives better results than individual visual or sound method.
· Human errors or mistakes can be easily recognised.
· Time to recover the error is shorter than in other methods.
· The method has various effects in the different systems, but determines the substitution of 3D auditory feedback for force feedback in the manipulation assignments

Multi-sensory technology and traditional desktop computing

Picture 2 shows ‘Wave station’.
Source: http://www.visualvoicepro.com/

References:

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