{"id":22,"date":"2025-09-02T03:53:41","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T03:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/tacit\/?page_id=22"},"modified":"2025-10-01T23:58:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T23:58:23","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/tacit\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide agl agl-zoomOutCSS agl-in-distance-1 is-layout-grid wp-container-core-group-is-layout-5fdb10e5 wp-block-group-is-layout-grid\" style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-content-justification-stretch is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-627337ab wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group wp-container-content-9cfa9a5a is-vertical is-content-justification-left is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-51135e8a wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\" style=\"padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0\">\n<p><strong>TACIT<\/strong> is an interdisciplinary R&amp;D project developing a cohesive VR experience driven by haptic cues that create a complete emotional arc. While haptic sensation is widely used for simulation, training, and basic sensory feedback, we specifically investigate its potential in shaping emotional moments in virtual reality using vibrotactile sensations from haptic gloves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-default\">Each part of our rapid prototyping and playtesting driven design will be guided by one key question: <em>&#8220;Does haptic interaction, combined with visuals and sound, evoke the intended emotion?&#8221;<\/em> First, we will focus on prototyping a variety of haptic patterns to identify moments with strong emotional potential. Afterwards, we will design and build out a VR experience where haptic moments are meaningfully integrated and essential to the emotional impact of the overall journey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-default\">We are a student pitch team, read about our journey <a href=\"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/tacit\/devlog-week0\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"55\">here<\/a>!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);margin-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);margin-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20)\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1351\" height=\"1801\" src=\"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/tacit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/about-page.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-363\" style=\"aspect-ratio:3\/4;object-fit:cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/tacit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/about-page.jpg 1351w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/tacit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/about-page-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/tacit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/about-page-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/tacit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/about-page-1152x1536.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1351px) 100vw, 1351px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TACIT is an interdisciplinary R&amp;D project developing a cohesive VR experience driven by haptic cues that create a complete emotional arc. While haptic sensation is widely used for simulation, training, and basic sensory feedback, we specifically investigate its potential in shaping emotional moments in virtual reality using vibrotactile sensations from haptic gloves. Each part of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"wp-custom-template-about","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-22","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/tacit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/tacit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/tacit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/tacit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/tacit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/tacit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":398,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/tacit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions\/398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/tacit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}