Multi-finger haptic interface for collaborative tasks in virtual environments

  • Authors:
  • Maria Oyarzabal;Manuel Ferre;Salvador Cobos;Mary Monroy;Jordi Barrio;Javier Ortego

  • Affiliations:
  • Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Dpto. Automática, Ing. Electrónica e Inf. Industrial, Madrid, Spain;Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Dpto. Automática, Ing. Electrónica e Inf. Industrial, Madrid, Spain;Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Dpto. Automática, Ing. Electrónica e Inf. Industrial, Madrid, Spain;Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Dpto. Automática, Ing. Electrónica e Inf. Industrial, Madrid, Spain;Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Dpto. Automática, Ing. Electrónica e Inf. Industrial, Madrid, Spain;Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Dpto. Automática, Ing. Electrónica e Inf. Industrial, Madrid, Spain

  • Venue:
  • HCI'07 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Human-computer interaction: interaction platforms and techniques
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Haptic devices allow a high level of immersion in virtual environments by providing the sense of touch. We present a two-finger device that allows the performance of power and precision tasks in virtual environments. We have also developed a mathematical model of the human hand and a statistical procedure to identify different hand gestures. Both have been implemented in the virtual environment in order to have a mathematical model of haptic interactions, which runs in real time so as to provide contact forces and object movements depending on the manipulation commands received from the haptic device.