A Shape Recognition Benchmark for Evaluating Usability of a Haptic Environment

This paper describes a benchmark task for evaluating the usability of haptic environments for a shape perception task. The task measures the ease with which observers can recognize members of a standard set of five shapes defined by Koenderink. Median time for 12 participants to recognize these shapes with the PHANToM was 23 seconds. This recognition time is within the range for shape recognition of physical objects using 1 finger but far slower than recognition using the whole hand. The results suggest haptic environments must provide multiple points of contact with an object for rapid performance of shape recognition. Keywords Haptic interfaces, benchmarks, PHANToM

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2000
• Where: HHCI
• Authors: Arthur E. Kirkpatrick, Sarah A. Douglas
• Keywords: Haptic Environments, HHCI 2000, Human Computer Interaction, Shape Perception Task, Shape Recognition