Motion platforms are advanced systems for driving simulators. Studies showed that these systems imitate the real driving behavior of cars very accurately. In low-cost driving simulators, most installations lack motion platforms and miss to simulate real motion forces. Their focus is on high-quality video and audio, or force feedback on steering wheels. We aim to substitute the real motion forces with low-cost actuators triggering the human extremities to create an extended immersion. By this, the quality of driving simulators without any motion platform can be increased. Our full body haptic display concept for low-cost racing car simulators is based on air cushion and pull mechanisms to support longitudinal and lateral forces addressing the human's mechanoreceptive and proprioceptive senses. The concept is analyzed within a user study covering twenty-two participants.

We present InfrActables, a wireless technology for human computer interaction devices. It allows multiple users to interact simultaneously on back-projection displays. It recognizes each device’s position, orientation, and identification, but also enables the tools to communicate their states to the application that the user interacts with. This makes it possible to build complex interaction devices for direct manipulation with buttons, sliders, and other input capabilities. The technology was developed for a computer-supported environment, allowing multiple users to interact simultaneously on a surface using multiple styli and other user input devices. The principle of operation is not limited to two-dimensional surfaces, three-dimensional user input devices can also profit from its advantages.