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HAPTICS
2006
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Design and Development of a General Purpose 7 DOF Haptic Device
A seven degree-of-freedom (DOF) haptic device has been developed with applications towards robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery. The device consists of four degrees of force ...
Gregory Tholey, Jaydev P. Desai
HAPTICS
2003
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Electro-Rheological Fluidic Actuators for Haptic Vehicular Instrument Controls
Force-feedback mechanisms have been designed to simplify and enhance the human-vehicle interface. The increase in secondary controls within vehicle cockpits has created a desire f...
J. Melli-Huber, Brian Weinberg, Avi Fisch, Jason N...
EDUTAINMENT
2006
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Haptic Puppetry for Interactive Games
In interactive computer games and computer animation, intuitively controlling the motion of an articulated character is considered as a difficult task. One of the reasons is that, ...
Sujeong Kim, Xinyu Zhang, Young J. Kim
BILDMED
2008
103views Algorithms» more  BILDMED 2008»
13 years 11 months ago
Haptic Pulse Simulation for Virtual Palpation
Abstract. In this paper we propose a software-based approach to simulate the haptics of the human pulse. This effect can then be interactively explored by virtual palpation. The al...
Sebastian Ullrich, Joel Mendoza, Alexandre Ntouba,...
PRESENCE
2008
185views more  PRESENCE 2008»
13 years 10 months ago
Pilot Evaluation Study of a Virtual Paracentesis Simulator for Skill Training and Assessment: The Beneficial Effect of Haptic Di
Effective, real-time training of health care professionals in invasive procedures is a challenging task. Furthermore, assessing in practice the acquisition of the dexterity and sk...
Costas S. Tzafestas, Kostas Birbas, Yiannis Koumpo...