Over the past years haptic interfaces have been successfully integrated into a wide range of fields such as engineering (Borro et al., 2004) or surgery (Basdogan et al., 2004). Haptic devices allow users to interact with a certain environment, either remote or virtual, by the sense of touch. In these applications—unlike in conventional robotic systems—the user shares workspace with the device. ...

Many tasks may be performed with greater efficiency and speed with haptic assistance. Using the Penbased Haptic Display, a low-power, low-friction, and high-precision device, we performed two separate experiments to measure two properties of human/haptic interactions. In the first experiment, we measured the level of force at which a subject may detect the presence of haptic feedback at a 71% a...

We present a collaboration system incorporating haptic interface which allows us to share the virtual environment and haptic interactions with people at different locations. Haptic interface provides physical sensation and an intuitive and effective tool in collaboration along with visual and auditory information. In our system, each user performs painting and sculpting operations directly on t...

The Lucs Haptic Hand II has been built as a step in a project at LUCS aiming at studying haptic perception. In this project, several robot hands together with cognitive computational models of the corresponding human neurophysiologic systems will be built. Grasping tests with LUCS Haptic Hand II were done with two different objects in order to get a comprehension of the signal patterns from the...

We describe an audio-haptic experiment conducted using a system which simulates in real-time the auditory and haptic sensation of walking on different surfaces. The system is based on physical models, that drive both the haptic and audio synthesizers, and a pair of shoes enhanced with sensors and actuators. Such experiment was run to examine the ability of subjects to recognize the different su...

We address the real-time collection and simultaneous broadcast of haptic information to multiple haptic session participants, so that collaborative exploration of objects is possible, even when users are equipped with disparate haptic devices, such as the PHANToM and the CyberGrasp. We have designed and are currently testing a prototype system for haptic collaboration over the Internet. The bas...

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...

The Lucs Haptic Hand III has been built as a step in a project at LUCS aiming at studying haptic perception. In this project, several robot hands together with cognitive computational models of the corresponding human neurophysiologic systems will be built. Grasping tests with the LUCS Haptic Hand III were done with six different objects in order to get a comprehension of the signal patterns fr...

The Haptic Capstans are two rotational force-feedback knobs circumscribed by eye-catching LED rings. In this work, the Haptic Capstans are programmed using physical models in order to experiment with audio-visual-haptic interactions for music applications.

Recent advances in both haptic rendering techniques and CPU power have made haptic feedback increasingly accessible on consumer hardware. With the recent success of simple haptic feedback devices in console and PC game systems, more sophisticated haptic rendering is poised to enter the mass entertainment market in the near future. With this in mind, we describe “Haptic Battle Pong”, a competiti...