Participatory design of a portable torque-feedback device

  • Authors:
  • Michael Good

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • CHI '92 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 1992

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Abstract

Customer-driven design processes such as participatory design can be used to develop new presence, or virtual reality, technology. Chemists worked together with computer company engineers to develop scenarios for how present technology could be used to support future molecular modeling work in drug design. These scenarios led to the development of a portable torque-feedback device which can be used with either workstation or virtual reality technology. This paper discusses both the experience with the participatory design process and the novel features of the portable torque-feedback device.