Stephanie Patterson

Fuzzy Feelings: Arousal’s Interpretive Noise and the Case for Acoustic-Based Haptics

Captions rarely convey emotional nuances in speech, leaving Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing (DHH) viewers without access to tonal and affective information. We present a two-part mixed-methods study on how haptic feedback can communicate vocal emotion without adding visual load. In Part 1, we replicated an arousal-driven cap…