Designer-centered haptic interfaces for shape modeling

Authors:
Monica Bordegoni;Umberto Cugini
Affiliations:
Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Meccanica, Milano, Italy;Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Meccanica, Milano, Italy
Venue:
ICVR'07 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Virtual reality
Year:
2007

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Abstract

This paper presents some results of a research project aiming at developing haptic tools for virtual shape modeling resembling the real tools like rakes and sandpaper used by modelers and designers in the real workshop. The developed system consists of a CAS (Computer Aided Styling) system enhanced with intuitive designer-oriented interaction tools and modalities. The system requirements have been defined on the basis of the observation of designers during their daily work and translating the way they model shapes using hands and craft tools into specifications for the modeling system based on haptic tools. The haptic tool and the interaction modality developed for exploring and sanding a surface is presented in the paper.