Shaking a box to estimate the property of content

  • Authors:
  • Yasuhiro Tanaka;Koichi Hirota

  • Affiliations:
  • Faculty of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Japan;Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Japan

  • Venue:
  • EuroHaptics'12 Proceedings of the 2012 international conference on Haptics: perception, devices, mobility, and communication - Volume Part I
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

The fact that we can guess the properties of the contents in a box or a bottle by shaking it is interesting. If this experience can be realized virtually, it would be possible to use it as a means to transmit information from a portable information appliance to a user via haptic interaction. This paper describes an approach for implementing such a device; the development of a haptic device and control system as well as the modeling and simulation of a virtual box and its contents are presented in this paper. The prototype system was evaluated, and different model parameters were experimentally tested.