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HUC
2011
Springer
12 years 4 months ago
Haptic reassurance in the pitch black for an immersive theatre experience
An immersive theatre experience was designed to raise awareness and question perceptions of ‘blindness’, through enabling both sighted and blind members to experience a simila...
Janet van der Linden, Yvonne Rogers, Maria Oshodi,...
HAPTICS
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Bringing Haptics to Second Life for Visually Impaired People
Potential applications of online virtual worlds are attracting the interest of many researchers around the world. One and perhaps the most famous example of such systems is Linden ...
Maurizio de Pascale, Sara Mulatto, Domenico Pratti...
CHI
2003
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Assessing haptic properties for data representation
This paper describes the results of a series of forced choice design experiments investigating the discrimination of material properties using a PHANToM haptic device. Research ha...
Steven A. Wall, Stephen A. Brewster
ICCHP
2010
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Making Digital Maps Accessible Using Vibrations
Abstract. In order to allow blind and deafblind people to use and explore electronically available maps, we have developed a system that displays maps in a tactile way using a stan...
Bernhard Schmitz, Thomas Ertl
SI3D
2003
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Large haptic topographic maps: marsview and the proxy graph algorithm
In this paper we develop an interactive 3D browser for large topographic maps using a visual display augmented by a haptic, or force feedback, display. The extreme size of our dat...
Sean P. Walker, John Kenneth Salisbury Jr.