A Comparison of Three Techniques to Interact in Large Virtual Environments Using Haptic Devices with Limited Workspace

Dominjon, Lionel; Lécuyer, Anatole; Burkhardt, Jean‐Marie; Richir, Simon

doi:10.1007/11784203_25

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“…Dominjon et al [9] proposed an interaction technique for haptic devices that combines position and rate control.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Movement is isotonic and position controlled inside the bubble, but it becomes elastic and rate controlled as the cursor crosses the boundaries of the bubble to the outside. Dominjon et al [9] implemented the bubble technique with a PHANTOM haptic device and evaluated it on 3D-model painting tasks. The technique was more efficient than both absolute positioning and clutching and received higher subjective rankings.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Modeless Pointing with Low-Precision Wrist Movements

Tsandilas

Dubois

Raynal

2013

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. Wrist movements are physically constrained and take place within a small range around the hand's rest position. We explore pointing techniques that deal with the physical constraints of the wrist and extend the range of its input without making use of explicit mode-switching mechanisms. Taking into account elastic properties of the human joints, we investigate designs based on rate control. In addition to pure rate control, we examine a hybrid technique that combines position and rate-control and a technique that applies non-uniform position-control mappings. Our experimental results suggest that rate control is particularly effective under low-precision input and long target distances. Hybrid and non-uniform position-control mappings, on the other hand, result in higher precision and become more effective as input precision increases.

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“…Dominjon et al [9] proposed an interaction technique for haptic devices that combines position and rate control.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Modeless Pointing with Low-Precision Wrist Movements

Tsandilas

Dubois

Raynal

2013

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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“…Pioneered by Dominjon et al [6,7,8], the bubble technique is a hybrid haptic control technique for expanding the haptic workspace. It supports fine manipulation as well as access to a larger effective working volume by moving the workspace under some conditions.…”

Section: Increasing Haptic Workpacementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The sphere-shaped volume of the workspace providing direct position-control has previously been visualized as a semitransparent sphere [6,7,8]. Dominjon et al note that dualdisplay of the spherical bounding volume (haptic and visual) supports association of the physical and displayed workspace.…”

Section: Display Optionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Expanding Haptic Workspace for Coupled-Object Manipulation

Pavlik

Vance

2011

ASME 2011 World Conference on Innovative Virtual Reality

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Haptic force-feedback offers a valuable cue in exploration and manipulation of virtual environments. However, grounding of many commercial kinesthetic haptic devices limits the workspace accessible using a purely position-control scheme. The bubble technique has been recently presented as a method for expanding the user's haptic workspace. The bubble technique is a hybrid position-rate control system in which a volume, or "bubble," is defined entirely within the physical workspace of the haptic device. When the device's end effector is within this bubble, interaction is through position control. When exiting this volume, an elastic restoring force is rendered, and a rate is applied that moves the virtual accessible workspace. Existing work on the bubble technique focuses on point-based touching tasks. When the bubble technique is applied to simulations where the user is grasping virtual objects with part-part collision detection, unforeseen interaction problems surface. This paper discusses three details of the user experience of coupled-object manipulation with the bubble technique. A few preliminary methods of addressing these interaction challenges are introduced. Keywords Haptics Disciplines Mechanical Engineering ABSTRACTHaptic force-feedback offers a valuable cue in exploration and manipulation of virtual environments. However, grounding of many commercial kinesthetic haptic devices limits the workspace accessible using a purely position-control scheme. The bubble technique has been recently presented as a method for expanding the user's haptic workspace. The bubble technique is a hybrid position-rate control system in which a volume, or "bubble," is defined entirely within the physical workspace of the haptic device. When the device's end effector is within this bubble, interaction is through position control. When exiting this volume, an elastic restoring force is rendered, and a rate is applied that moves the virtual accessible workspace. Existing work on the bubble technique focuses on point-based touching tasks. When the bubble technique is applied to simulations where the user is grasping virtual objects with part-part collision detection, unforeseen interaction problems surface. This paper discusses three details of the user experience of coupled-object manipulation with the bubble technique. A few preliminary methods of addressing these interaction challenges are introduced.

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“…A metaphor should be used to move him into the VE. In [10], authors present an evaluation of 3 different techniques to achieve the interaction with objects that appear bigger than the workspace of the haptic device. We used a method similar to the bubble technique [11].…”

Section: High-level Functionalitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

MHaptic : a Haptic Manipulation Library for Generic Virtual Environments

Freyberger

Färber

Kuschel

et al. 2007

2007 International Conference on Cyberworlds (CW'07)

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Abstract-This paper presents a new library called MHaptic for bimanual haptic interaction within generic virtual environments. It has been specifically designed to work with a Haptic Workstation TM . MHaptic provides tools for accelerated development of virtual environment applications with haptic feedback like device calibration, user comfort improvements and access to low level parameters. Due to its integration with the Ageia PhysX library, it facilitates the dynamic animation of virtual objects. A realistic hand model based on mass-spring systems allows natural and intuitive manipulation. MHaptic is complemented by an authoring tool that associates information required for haptic feedback to existing virtual environments. The combination of the library and the authoring tool creates a framework for easy development of complex VR haptic applications.

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A Comparison of Three Techniques to Interact in Large Virtual Environments Using Haptic Devices with Limited Workspace

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Modeless Pointing with Low-Precision Wrist Movements

Modeless Pointing with Low-Precision Wrist Movements

Expanding Haptic Workspace for Coupled-Object Manipulation

MHaptic : a Haptic Manipulation Library for Generic Virtual Environments

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