Dorsal Haptic Display is an automotive interface questioning how we perceive a car’s surroundings. Motors in a car seats backrest stimulate the driver’s back with a projection of rear obstacles. We conducted a first user study to prove basic functionality and presented our results at AutomotiveUI 2015 in Nottingham, UK, in September.

In the last six months Thomas and I worked on our Master thesis. We digged deep into shape-changing interfaces, embodied cognition and perceptual motor skills and the relevance for automotive design. During our research we visited TEI 2014 and developed a little prototype to demonstrate one of our concepts. On Tuesday (29.04.14) we finally presented our colloquium and are very pleased about the outcome.

By visiting the exhibition “A House Full of Music” revolving around John Cage at Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt, inspiration hit me. I recreated mesmerizing animations by Marcel Duchamp in the browser.