Haptic interaction system for co-evolution with reactive virtual human

  • Authors:
  • S. Z. Jeong;N. Hashimoto;M. Sato

  • Affiliations:
  • Precision and Inteligence Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan;Precision and Inteligence Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan;Precision and Inteligence Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan

  • Venue:
  • Edutainment'06 Proceedings of the First international conference on Technologies for E-Learning and Digital Entertainment
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Interactions that provide motivating activities, and perform mutual feedback truly in human-scale spaces, were not suggested in any studies. In this paper, we propose and implement a haptic interaction system that realizes reciprocal reactions. This system is composed of a wire-driven haptic interface and an immersive virtual environment. It enables user to do visual and force feedback in a human-scale interaction spaces. And the virtual human performs intuitive response to changes of user's action. Based on the framework, we implemented a haptic interaction, Virtual Catch Ball, that a user can play the virtual human with one's feeling of contacting real ball. Furthermore we introduce the system's extended function that virtual human imitates user's effective styles acquired by a on-line motion capture, and then reflects them on his behavioral structure. It will be a practical way to produce various motion patterns during playing, and to evolve both behaviors.