Target Acquisition with Force Feedback: The Effect of Different Forces on the User's Performance

Authors:
Joan Boeck;Lode Vanacken;Karin Coninx
Affiliations:
Expertise Centre for Digital Media (EDM) and transnationale Universiteit Limburg, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium B-3590;Expertise Centre for Digital Media (EDM) and transnationale Universiteit Limburg, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium B-3590;Expertise Centre for Digital Media (EDM) and transnationale Universiteit Limburg, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium B-3590
Venue:
HAID '09 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Haptic and Audio Interaction Design
Year:
2009

Citing 12
Cited 1

Performance differences in the fingers, wrist, and forearm in computer input control

Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human factors in computing systems
Testing pointing device performance and user assessment with the ISO 9241, Part 9 standard

Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Putting the feel in ’look and feel‘

Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Scale effects in steering law tasks

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
More than dotting the i's --- foundations for crossing-based interfaces

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Haptic Feedback: A Brief History from Telepresence to Virtual Reality

Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Haptic Human-Computer Interaction
Tactons: structured tactile messages for non-visual information display

AUIC '04 Proceedings of the fifth conference on Australasian user interface - Volume 28
Towards a standard for pointing device evaluation, perspectives on 27 years of Fitts' law research in HCI

International Journal of Human-Computer Studies - Special issue: Fitts law 50 years later: Applications and contributions from human-computer interaction
An evaluation of sticky and force enhanced targets in multi target situations

Proceedings of the 4th Nordic conference on Human-computer interaction: changing roles
Discrimination and identification of finger joint-angle position using active motion

ACM Transactions on Applied Perception (TAP)
OctoPocus: a dynamic guide for learning gesture-based command sets

Proceedings of the 21st annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
Multimodal selection techniques for dense and occluded 3D virtual environments

International Journal of Human-Computer Studies

The phantom versus the falcon: force feedback magnitude effects on user's performance during target acquisition

HAID'10 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Haptic and audio interaction design

Quantified Score

Hi-index	0.00

Visualization

Abstract

Besides realistic haptic rendering of objects, haptic feedback can also be used to provide an abstract feedback channel. This can either be realised by a tactile or a force feedback stimulus. When using forces, care has to be taken that the user's performance is not influenced in a negative way. However, as it is not obvious to determine a suitable force, and currently not many guidelines exist. Therefore, in this paper we investigate the influence on some important parameters that define a force (shape, duration and amplitude). In order to compare different forces, we propose to use the definite integral (Force Integral, FI ) which combines the considered parameters. From the conducted experiment we learn that the FI can be used (within bounds) to make an estimation of the result of the force. Besides this, we also found that above a given FI value, the user's performance degrades significantly.