Audiovisual guidance for simulated one point force exertion tasks

  • Authors:
  • Mikko J. Rissanen;Yoshihiro Kuroda;Naoto Kume;Megumi Nakao;Tomohiro Kuroda;Hiroyuki Yoshihara

  • Affiliations:
  • Kyoto University;Kyoto University;Kyoto University;NAIST;Kyoto University Hospital;Kyoto University Hospital

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2006 ACM international conference on Virtual reality continuum and its applications
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

This paper describes a novel guidance method for force exertion tasks with one contact point haptic interface using visual and auditory cues in a virtual environment. To teach how to exert force accurately, the proposed method displays a pre-recorded example force magnitude curve which user tries to follow. Orientation of manipulation can be presented as a visual cue or as an auditory cue through a mapping from 3D environment to a 2D plane to provide auditory guidance from the user's perspective. The proposed method was evaluated in a case of palpation of the aorta and proved to guide users to exert force more accurately than the traditional position-tracking approach.