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Development of A Finger Mounted Type Haptic Device Using A Plane Approximated to Tangent Plane

Authors:
Makoto Yoda
Hiroki Imamura

Keywords: haptic device, plane interface, force feedback

Abstract:
In recent years, several researches of haptic devices have been conducted. By using conventional haptic devices, users can perceive touching an object, such as Computer Graphics (CG) by a force feedback. Since conventional haptic devices provide a force feedback from a single point on an object surface where users touch it, users touch an object by point contact. However, conventional haptic devices cannot provide users with a sense such as humans touching an object with a finger pad because a finger pad does not touch an object by point contact but surface contact in reality. In this paper, we propose a novel haptic device. By using this haptic device, users can perceive the slope of a CG object surface when they put fingers on it without tracing. Moreover, users can perceive grabbing a CG object with finger pads. To grab CG object, we mount the plane interface of the haptic device on each two fingers. Then, users can perceive the slope of a CG object surface where users are touching. Each plane interface provides users with the slope approximated to a tangent plane of area where they touched. In the evaluation experiments, the subjects in this experiment evaluated this haptic device. From the results, the subjects could perceive the slope of a CG object surface. In addition, they could perceive grabbing a CG object.

Pages: 436 to 441

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2016

Publication date: April 24, 2016

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4138

ISBN: 978-1-61208-468-8

Location: Venice, Italy

Dates: from April 24, 2016 to April 28, 2016