General atomic and molecular electronic structure system
Journal of Computational Chemistry
A system for interactive molecular dynamics simulation
I3D '01 Proceedings of the 2001 symposium on Interactive 3D graphics
Role of Haptics in Teaching Structural Molecular Biology
HAPTICS '03 Proceedings of the 11th Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems (HAPTICS'03)
Web3D '05 Proceedings of the tenth international conference on 3D Web technology
A guided tour in haptic audio visual environments and applications
International Journal of Advanced Media and Communication
Feel the Pressure: E-learning Systems with Haptic Feedback
HAPTICS '08 Proceedings of the 2008 Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems
Usability assessment of a multimodal visual-haptic framework for chemistry education
INTERACT'11 Proceedings of the 13th IFIP TC 13 international conference on Human-computer interaction - Volume Part IV
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The paper presents a system for the multi-modal rendering of molecules. Chemists typically deal with phenomena that are not directly experienceable and usually described by huge amount of data awkward to understand directly. Software tools have been introduced to support data interpretation, without a high degree of interactivity and explorability of the data. This work goes beyond the classical visual representations of molecules and introduces some new ways of exploration and navigation of information on which inter-molecular interactions are based. Target users are researchers and teachers, as integration to their activities. Two different modalities are used: haptical and visual. The former modality consists in the addition of a haptic interface that enables users to feel the interaction forces exerted by the electric field around a molecule. The latter modality shows the features of the same electric field by allowing the user to navigate the information about the values of the field using a visual color-based rendering and adding other visual cues. Implementation details, case studies, and results on the two modalities are described. Eye-tracking, awareness tools, machine learning, coordination, expertise