Haptic Human-Computer Interaction: First International Workshop

Citation

Rigelsford, J. (2004), "Haptic Human-Computer Interaction: First International Workshop", Sensor Review, Vol. 24 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/sr.2004.08724aae.003

Haptic Human-Computer Interaction: First International Workshop

Haptic Human-Computer Interaction: First International Workshop

S. Brewster and R. Murray-Smith (Eds)Springer2001232 pp.ISBN 3-540-42356-7£23.00 Paperback

Keywords: Haptics

This book presents the 22 papers given at the “First International Workshop on Haptic Human-Computer Interaction”, held in Glasgow, UK. It addresses the general principles of haptic human-computer interaction (HCI) and the systematic use of haptic devices for improving efficiency, effectiveness, and user satisfaction of HCI.

After an introductory chapter “Haptic Feedback: A Brief History from Telepresence to Virtual Reality” the material is divided into five focal areas. The first section addresses Haptic Interfaces for Blind People and includes “Design Principles for Tactile Interaction”, “The Haptic Perception of Texture in Virtual Environments: An Investigation with Two Devices”, “Haptic Graphs for Blind Computer Users”, and “Web-Based Touch Display for Accessible Science Education”.

“Communicating with Feeling”, “Improved Precision in Mediated Collaborative Manipulation of Objects by Haptic Force Feedback” and “Hand-Shaped Force Interaction for Human-Cooperative Mobile Robot” are discussed in section two, Collaborative Haptics.

Section 3 focuses on Psychological Issues and Measurement and includes papers discussing “Interaction of Visual and Haptic Information in Simulated Environments: Texture Perception”, “The Effective Combination of Haptic and Auditory Textural Information” and “Cursor Trajectory Analysis”. The following section, Applications of Haptics, presents two studies on the use of haptics in aircraft cockpits, and a paper discussing “A Horse Ovary Palpation Simulator for Veterinary Training”.

The remaining four papers address Haptics in Virtual Environments and include “Scaleable SPIDAR: A Haptic Interface for Human-Scale Virtual Environments”, “The Sense of Object-Presence with Projection Augmented Models” and “Sensing the Fabric: To Simulate Sensation through Sensory Evaluation and in Response to Standard Acceptable Properties of Specific Materials when Viewed as a Digital Image”.

Overall, “Haptic Human-Computer Interaction” is an excellent resource for both professionals and researchers. It provides some of the fundamentals of haptic HCI, and helps illustrate areas where further research is required and possible psychological and technical limitations.

Jon Rigelsford