Feeling is Believing: Using a Force‐Feedback Joystick to Teach Dynamic Systems

Okamura, Allison M.; Richard, Christopher; Cutkosky, Mark R.

doi:10.1002/j.2168-9830.2002.tb00713.x

Cited by 127 publications

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“…Semi-structured interviews followed and their comments and observations were registered. The majority of these experts were very positive about the simulator itself (65%) and about the use of these environments (60%) for learning, therefore corroborating [13].…”

Section: Short Paper Improving Experiential Learning With Haptic Expesupporting

confidence: 64%

Improving Experiential Learning with Haptic Experimentation

Carvalho¹

2013

Int. J. Onl. Eng.

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Abstract-Experiential learning reflects the idea of knowledge construction as a behavior change resulting from the interaction between the user and the environment leading to experiences, feelings and sensations. The use of virtual simulators in education is a path to foster experiential learning because they provide interactive environments that students can explore and observe. The use of haptic devices with these simulators adds a new dimension, touch, increasing their immersive capacity and the students' attraction and interest. Physics is an area particularly well-suited for the application of haptic simulators. The study of forces, for instance, is an area normally taught in a very abstract and theoretical way and students have extreme difficulty in relating those concepts with their practical application. The "Forces of Physics" haptic simulator described in this article allows experimenting various forces of physics such as the friction force, the aerodynamic force and the gravitational force.

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Section: Short Paper Improving Experiential Learning With Haptic Expesupporting

confidence: 64%

Improving Experiential Learning with Haptic Experimentation

Carvalho¹

2013

Int. J. Onl. Eng.

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“…Providing force feedback to students with a low-cost "haptic paddle", Okamura et al (2002) suggested that educational haptics is appropriate for teaching notions in dynamic systems. An evaluation of hands-on sessions in (Grow et al, 2007) supports this idea but is limited by the lack of a control group.…”

Section: Nanoscience Educationmentioning

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Haptics and graphic analogies for the understanding of atomic force microscopy

Millet¹,

Lécuyer

Burkhardt³

et al. 2013

International Journal of Human-Computer Studies

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This paper aims to evaluate the benefits of using virtual reality and force-feedback to help teaching nanoscale applications. We propose a teaching aid that combines graphic analogies and haptics intended to improve the grasp of non-intuitive nanoscale phenomena for people without prior knowledge of nanophysics. We look specifically at the most important nanophysical phenomenon, namely, the behavior of the probe of an Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) as it approaches a sample. The results from experiments carried out with 45 students indicate that a "magnet-spring" analogy helped beginners to establish the link between the behavior of a probe and its force-distance curve. The addition of haptic feedback increased focus about forces and improved the interpretation of the effect of cantilever stiffness. Haptic feedback and the analogical representation were very much appreciated by the subjects and had an impact on the construction of a mental model. Taken together, our results show a positive influence of using haptic feedback and graphic analogies, especially when students are first exposed to the notions that are in effect at the nanoscale.

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“…To achieve realistic force perception of the dynamic guidance virtual fixtures, direct cable drives and capstan mechanisms were selected to minimize inertia, friction, gravitational forces , and backlash. Such mechanisms are well documented in literature [19] and are also in use in commercial products such as the PHANTOM-Omni.…”

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Implementation of a force-feedback interface for robotic assisted interventions with real-time MRI guidance

Sternberg

Kilicarslan

Navkar

et al. 2013

2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

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Abstract-Efficient and intuitive interfacing of the interventionalist to the information and tools available from image-guided robotic assisted surgeries is required to achieve the full benefit of these technologies. Ongoing research has been performed into the use of forbidden region guided fixtures (FRVF) for human-in-the-loop control of image-guided procedures via haptic force-feedback devices (FFD). Although commercially available FFD provide sufficient degrees-offreedom (DoF), collaborating clinicians, as well as the results of our previous work indicate that these systems are not completely intuitive for controlling fixed-point access interventional tool which have a remote center of motion. Within this context, we introduce a new FFD which is designed with the same DoF constraints as a fixed-point access interventional tool. The device is tested in a clinical simulation of a robot assisted trans-apical valve implantation under guidance from real-time magnetic resonance imaging. Preacquired real-time images are used in the clinical simulation to dynamically update the FRVF and therefore provide guiding forces to allow the operator to see the safe boundaries of operation via a visualization interface and physically feel them through the FFD. Inertial and gravity compensation and per DoF dynamic response of the physical prototype are validated and the frequency response of the system demonstrates it is adequate for tactile sensing. During clinical simulation the operator was successfully able to maneuver the tool within the safe path to the region of interest with the guidance of visual and force-feedback.

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Feeling is Believing: Using a Force‐Feedback Joystick to Teach Dynamic Systems

Cited by 127 publications

References 7 publications

Improving Experiential Learning with Haptic Experimentation

Improving Experiential Learning with Haptic Experimentation

Haptics and graphic analogies for the understanding of atomic force microscopy

Implementation of a force-feedback interface for robotic assisted interventions with real-time MRI guidance

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