Stereohaptics: a haptic interaction toolkit for tangible virtual experiences

Israr, Ali; Zhao, Siyan; McIntosh, Kyna; Schwemler, Zachary; Fritz, Adam; Mars, John; Bedford, Job; Frisson, Christian; Huerta, Ivan; Kosek, Maggie; Koniaris, Babis; Mitchell, Kenny

Abstract

With a recent rise in the availability of affordable head mounted gear sets, various sensory stimulations (e.g., visual, auditory and haptics) are integrated to provide seamlessly embodied virtual experience in areas such as education, entertainment, therapy and social interactions. Currently, there is an abundance of available toolkits and application programming interfaces (APIs) for generating the visual and audio content. However, such richness in hardware technologies and software tools is missing in designing haptic experiences. Current solutions to integrate haptic effects are limited due to: i) a user's rigid adaptation to new hardware and software technologies, ii) limited scalability of the existing tools to incorporate haptic hardware and applications, iii) inflexible authoring capabilities, iv) missing infrastructure for storing, playback and distribution, and v) and unreliable hardware for long term usage.

Citation

Israr, A., Zhao, S., McIntosh, K., Schwemler, Z., Fritz, A., Mars, J., Bedford, J., Frisson, C., Huerta, I., Kosek, M., Koniaris, B., & Mitchell, K. (2016, July). Stereohaptics: a haptic interaction toolkit for tangible virtual experiences. Presented at ACM SIGGRAPH 2016 Studio on - SIGGRAPH '16, Anaheim, CA, US

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (published)
• Conference Name: ACM SIGGRAPH 2016 Studio on - SIGGRAPH '16
• Start Date: Jul 24, 2016
• End Date: Jul 27, 2016
• Acceptance Date: Mar 24, 2016
• Online Publication Date: Jul 24, 2016
• Publication Date: Jul 24, 2016
• Deposit Date: Dec 12, 2017
• Publicly Available Date: Dec 14, 2017
• Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Book Title: SIGGRAPH '16: ACM SIGGRAPH 2016 Studio
• ISBN: 9781450343732
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2929484.2970273
• Keywords: Virtual experience, sensory stimulation, toolkits, apps,
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/951491
• Contract Date: Dec 12, 2017