TingleTouch: Touch Guidance through Electrical Stimulation in Resistance Training

TingleTouch: Touch Guidance through Electrical Stimulation in Resistance Training

Dong-Uk Kim, Hye-Young Jo, Hankyung Kim, Ryo Suzuki, Seungwoo Je, Yoonji Kim  

ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2026

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Abstract

TingleTouch translates trainers' touch guidance in resistance training into electrical-stimulation patterns. The system conveys four instructional messages—relax, stop, activate, and hold—so trainees can receive tactile guidance during solitary workouts.

Publication

Dong-Uk Kim, Hye-Young Jo, Hankyung Kim, Ryo Suzuki, Seungwoo Je, and Yoonji Kim. 2026. TingleTouch: Touch Guidance through Electrical Stimulation in Resistance Training. Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3772318.3791646


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