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HAPTICS
2010
IEEE
13 years 3 months ago
A New Coupling Scheme for Haptic Rendering of Rigid Bodies Interactions Based on a Haptic Sub-world Using a Contact Graph
Interactions with virtual worlds using the sense of touch, called haptic rendering, have natural applications in many domains such as health or industry. For an accurate and realis...
Loeiz Glondu, Maud Marchal, Georges Dumont
HHCI
2000
13 years 9 months ago
Interaction of Visual and Haptic Information in Simulated Environments: Texture Perception
This paper describes experiments relating to the perception of the roughness of simulated surfaces via the haptic and visual senses. Subjects used a magnitude estimation technique...
Steven A. Wall, William Harwin
MMM
2005
Springer
185views Multimedia» more  MMM 2005»
13 years 11 months ago
Database Support for Haptic Exploration in Very Large Virtual Environments
The efficient management of complex objects has become an enabling technology for modern multimedia information systems as well as for many novel database applications. Unfortunat...
Hans-Peter Kriegel, Peter Kunath, Martin Pfeifle, ...
USAB
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Competence Assessment for Spinal Anaesthesia
The authors describe a new approach towards assessing skills of medical trainees. Based on experiences from previous projects with (i) applying virtual environments for medical tra...
Dietrich Albert, Cord Hockemeyer, Zsuzsanna Kulcs&...
HAPTICS
2003
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Haptic Effects for Virtual Reality-Based Post-Stroke Rehabilitation
The majority of today’s haptic interfaces are designed for hand-based interaction with virtual environments. However, there are several reallife tasks that require a person to i...
Rares F. Boian, Judith E. Deutsch, Chan Su Lee, Gr...