Haptics in Virtual Reality and Multimedia

  • Authors:
  • Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann;Ugo Bonanni

  • Affiliations:
  • MIRALab, University of Geneva;MIRALab, University of Geneva

  • Venue:
  • IEEE MultiMedia
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Imagine that you're chatting with a good friend who tells you about her new cashmere pullover, and that you're able to touch it and appreciate the soft sensation of the cashmere wool--remotely over the Web in your virtual chatroom! In this article, the authors present their work on haptic sensing of virtualtextiles. This is work done in the context of the Haptex research project that aims at integrating thehuman sense of touch into multimodal user interfaces. Being able to support haptic perception in the userinterface will be a great step toward next-generation immersive multimedia experiences.