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Haptic Communications

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Steinbach, Eckehard, Hirche, Sandra, Ernst, Marc, Brandi, Fernanda, Chaudhari, Rahul, Kammerl, Julius, Vittorias, Iason·2012·Proceedings of the IEEE

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Audiovisual communications is at the core of multimedia systems that allow users to interact across distances. It is common understanding that both audio and video are required for high-quality interaction. While audiovisual information provides a user with a satisfactory impression of being present in a remote environment, physical interaction and manipulation is not supported. True immersion into a distant environment and efficient distributed collaboration require the ability to physically interact with remote objects and to literally get in touch with other people. Touching and manipulating objects remotely becomes possible if we augment traditional audiovisual communications by the haptic modality. Haptic communications is a relatively young field of research that has the potential to substantially improve human-human and human-machine interaction. In this paper, we discuss the state-of-the-art in haptic communications both from psychophysical and technical points of view. From a human perception point of view, we mainly focus on the multimodal integration of video and haptics and the improved performance that can be achieved when combining them. We also discuss how the human adapts to discrepancies and synchronization errors between different modalities, a research area which is typically referred to as perceptual learning. From a technical perspective, we address perceptual coding of haptic information and the transmission of haptic data streams over resource-constrained and potentially lossy networks in the presence of unpredictable and time-varying communication delays. In this context, we also discuss the need for objective quality metrics for haptic communication. Throughout the paper, we stress the fact that haptic communications is not meant as a replacement of traditional audiovisual communications but rather as an additional dimension for telepresence that will allow us to advance in our quest for truly immersive communication.

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Authors
Steinbach, E., Hirche, S., Ernst, M., Brandi, F., Chaudhari, R., Kammerl, J., & Vittorias, I.
Affiliations
  • Technical University of Munich (DE)
  • Bielefeld University (DE)
Venue
Proceedings of the IEEE
Published
2012-04
Volume
100
Issue
4
Pages
937-956
ISSN
  • 0018-9219 (ISSN-L)
  • 1558-2256
OpenAlex
W2294721440
Cited by
198
References
129
Citations by year
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FWCI
15.16
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Proceedings of the IEEE (publishedVersion)
  • PUB – Publications at Bielefeld University (Bielefeld University) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • mediaTUM – the media and publications repository of the Technical University Munich (Technical University Munich) (submittedVersion)
  • mediaTUM (Technical University of Munich) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • Publikationen an der Universität Bielefeld (Universität Bielefeld) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
Funders
FP7 Ideas: European Research Council (258941)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Mechanical Engineering › Teleoperation and Haptic Systems
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Tactile and Sensory Interactions
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Human-Computer Interaction › Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts
Keywords
haptic communication, telepresence, multimodal integration, haptic perception, perceptual learning, network latency, quality metrics, human-machine interaction, human-human interaction, immersive communication

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