Haptic Human-Computer Interaction

This book is the first one to focus on haptic human-computer interaction. It is based on a workshop held in Glasgow, UK, in August / September 2000. The 22 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 35 submissions. Besides a brief historic survey, the book offers topical sections on haptic interfaces for blind people, collaborative haptics, psychological issues and measurement, and applications of haptics.

Contents

• Haptic feedback : a brief history from telepresence to virtual reality

• Design principles for tactile interaction
• The haptic perception of texture invirtual environments : an investigation with two devices
• Haptic display of mathematical functions for teaching mathematics to students wuth vision disabilities : design and proff of concept
• Haptic graphs for blind computer users
• Web-based touch display for accessible science education

• Communicating withn feeling
• Improved precision in mediated collaborative manipulation of objects by Haptic force feedback
• Hand-shaped force interface for human-cooperative mobile robot

• Can the efficient of a haptic dispaly increased by short-time practice in exploration ?
• Implicit accuracy constraints in two-fingered grasps of virtual objects with Haptics feedback
• Interaction of visual and haptic Information in simualted enviroments : texture perception
• The effective combination of Haptic and auditory textural information
• Cursor trajectory anlysis
• What impact does the Haptic-stereo integration haver on depth perception in stereographic virtula environment ? preliminary study
• A shape recognition benchmark for evaluating usability of a Haptic environment

• A horse ovary palpation simulator for veterinary trainig
• Tactile navigation display
• Tactile information presentation in the cokpit
• Scaleable SPIDAR: a Haptic interface for human-scale virtual environments
• The sense of object-presence with projection augmented models
• Virtual computer games with a floor sensor control - Human centred approach in the design process
• Sensing the fabric : to simulate sensation through sensory evaluation in response to standard acceptable properties materials when viewed as a digital image
• Author Index