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HAPTICS
2005
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Delayed Visual and Haptic Feedback in a Reciprocal Tapping Task
To make optimal use of distributed virtual environments (DVEs), we must understand and quantify the effects that latency has on user performance. Although the effects of visual la...
Caroline Jay, Roger J. Hubbold
HAPTICS
2005
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Bi-Level and Anti-Aliased Rendering Methods for a Low-Resolution 2D Vibrotactile Array
We investigate rendering methods for 2D tactile arrays. We present four rendering methods, two of which are anti-aliased methods to improve display quality and smoothness. We desc...
Christoph W. Borst, Alp V. Asutay
HAPTICS
2005
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
A Haptic Enabled Multimodal Pre-operative Planner for Hip Arthroplasty
This paper introduces the Multisense idea, with a special reference to the use of Haptics in the medical field and, in particular, in the planning of total hip replacement surgery...
Silvano Imboden, Marco Petrone, Paolo Quadrani, Ci...
HAPTICS
2005
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Getting in Touch with a Cognitive Character
We provide computer-animated characters with haptic interaction, allowing human users to interfere with cognitive characters. Our work presents an interface between control and an...
Torsten Bierz, Peter Dannenmann, Kai Hergenrö...
HAPTICS
2005
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Effect of Cognitive Load on Tactor Location Identification in Zero-g
A wearable haptic interface has been developed to impart vibrotactile information to its user with the goal of improving situation awareness. The effectiveness of the haptic inter...
Anu Bhargava, Michael Scott, Ryan Traylor, Roy Chu...
HAPTICS
2005
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Friction Modeling and Compensation for Haptic Interfaces
Friction cancellation and high gain force feedback are studied for their relative benefits in mitigating the effects of friction in haptic interfaces. Although either technique a...
Nicholas L. Bernstein, Dale A. Lawrence, Lucy Y. P...
HAPTICS
2005
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
A FPGA Haptics Controller
Wearable haptics necessitates using low power, small, inexpensive tactors that are typically used as pager motors in cellular phones. One of their limitations is that it appears t...
Marc Holbein, John S. Zelek
HAPTICS
2005
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Wearable Kinesthetic System for Capturing and Classifying Upper Limb Gesture
Background: Monitoring body kinematics has fundamental relevance in several biological and technical disciplines. In particular the possibility to exactly know the posture may fur...
R. Bartalesi, Federico Lorussi, M. Tesconi, Alessa...
HAPTICS
2005
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
The Effect of Quantization and Coulomb Friction on the Stability of Haptic Rendering
Rendering stiff virtual objects remains a core challenge in the field of haptics. A study of this problem is presented, which relates the maximum achievable object stiffness to t...
Nicola Diolaiti, Günter Niemeyer, Federico Ba...
HAPTICS
2005
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Using Collaborative Haptics in Remote Surgical Training
We describe the design and trial of a remotely conducted surgical master class, using a haptic virtual environment as an integral part of the learning process. In the trial, we li...
Chris Gunn, Matthew A. Hutchins, Duncan Stevenson,...