This report describes the design and implementation of a mobile Web application that recreates the experience of Percepto, a haptic (tactile) cinema technology originally developed for Columbia’s 1959 feature film The Tingler. Utilizing Google’s UI software development kit, Flutter, together with Firebase, React, and TypeScript, a client-server architecture was created that allows synchronized control of vibrations across multiple Android or iOS devices. User testing confirmed that the application can reliably activate vibrations on command for an arbitrary number of users, and is compatible with a wide range of smartphones and tablets.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Stoessel, Jordan

Subject

• Innovation

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-032021-080623
• 6251

Keyword

• Movie
• Haptic
• Vibration
• Flutter
• Cross Platform
• Cinema

Advisor

• Cuneo, Joshua M.
• Moriarty, Brian J.

Year

• 2021

Date created

• 2021-03-20

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Computer Science

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Last modified

• 2021-05-03