Prop-Based Haptic Interaction with Co-location and Immersion: an Automotive Application

Most research on 3D user interfaces aims at providing only a single sensory modality. One challenge is to integrate several sensory modalities into a seamless system while preserving each modality’s immersion and performance factors. This paper concerns manipulation tasks and proposes a visuo-haptic system integrating immersive visualization, tactile force and tactile feedback with colocation. An industrial application is presented. The next section of the paper presents previous work both on visuo-haptic immersive configurations and on tactile/grasp feedback. Section 3 describes the proposed prop-based visuohaptic configuration. An industrial application and some aspects of its informal evaluation are presented in Section 4 and 5. Section 6 concludes the paper and proposes future work.