A touching compassion: Dürer’s haptic theology

Touching and Walking: Issues in Haptic Interface

This paper presents work carried out for a project to develop haptic technologies that includes finger/hand manipulation and locomotion. It is well known that sense of touch is inevitable for understanding the real world. The last decade has seen significant advance in development of haptic interface. However, methods for implementation of haptic interface are still in try-and-error. Compared t...

Feminism, Theology, and Abortion: Toward Love, Compassion, and Wisdom

Touching the Past: Haptic Augmented Reality for Museum Artefacts

In this paper we propose a novel interaction technique that creates the illusion of tactile exploration of museum artefacts which are otherwise impossible to touch. The technique meets the contextual necessity, often requested by museum curators, to background technology and to direct the focus of the museum visitor’s experience to the artefact itself. Our approach relies on the combination of ...

Touching Tales: Design Issues in Creating Haptic Content

Despite continual consumer demand for richer broadcast media, there have been few examinations of senses other than vision and hearing in this domain. This paper considers the role that touch may be able to play in future broadcast systems. We have begun to explore the addition of haptic cues to children’s cartoons, and through this process unearthed a number of practical design issues unique t...

Granular Material Interactive Manipulation: Touching Sand with Haptic Feedback

We present a novel approach for a virtual granular material interactive manipulation with force feedback. A user can interactively change a height-field model of sand by dragging objects inside. The virtual sand behaves like real sand moving to the sides and falling back, filling holes and irregularities on the surface. The dragging object position is controlled by a haptic device that provides...