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Improving contact realism through event-based haptic feedback
Abstract
Tapping on surfaces in a typical virtual environment feels like contact with soft foam rather than a hard object. The realism of such interactions can be dramatically improved by superimposing event-based, high-frequency transient forces over traditional position-based feedback. When scaled by impact velocity, hand-tuned pulses and decaying sinusoids produce haptic cues that resemble those experienced during real impacts. Our new method for generating appropriate transients inverts a dynamic model of the haptic device to determine the motor forces required to create prerecorded acceleration profiles at the user's fingertips. After development, the event-based haptic paradigm and the method of acceleration matching were evaluated in a carefully controlled user study. Sixteen individuals blindly tapped on nine virtual and three real samples, rating the degree to which each felt like real wood. Event-based feedback achieved significantly higher realism ratings than the traditional rendering method. The display of transient signals made virtual objects feel similar to a real sample of wood on a foam substrate, while position feedback alone received ratings similar to those of foam. This work provides an important new avenue for increasing the realism of contact in haptic interactions.
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Metadata
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- Kuchenbecker, K. J., Fiene, J., & Niemeyer, G.
- Venue
- IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
- Published
- 2006-03
- Volume
- 12
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 219-230
- ISSN
- 1077-2626 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2114987226
- Cited by
- 364
- References
- 25
- FWCI
- 58.57
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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