Virtual environments (VEs) with haptic feedback not only provide a safe and versatile practice medium for many manual control tasks, but also promise to improve the efficacy of m...
Yanfang Li, Joel C. Huegel, Volkan Patoglu, Marcia...
—In a distributed virtual environment interest management schemes attempt to ensure virtual world objects exchange messages only if they are interacting. This provides an opportu...
—Most virtual reality simulators are designed for complex medical procedures, such as laparoscopic surgery. While important, these simulators are of use for only a subset of spec...
Nader S. Raja, John A. Schleser, William P. Norman...
The purpose of the Virtual Haptic Back (VHB) project is to develop a realistic haptic/graphical model of the human back that can be used for palpation (diagnosis though touch) in ...
Wei Ji, Robert L. Williams II, John N. Howell, Rob...
Today, hand-held computing and media devices are commonly used in our everyday lives. This paper assesses the viability of hand-held devices as effective platforms for “virtual r...