The Haptic Touch toolkit : enabling exploration of haptic interactions
Abstract
In the real world, touch based interaction relies on haptic feedback (e.g., grasping objects, feeling textures). Unfortunately, such feedback is absent in current tabletop systems. The previously developed Haptic Tabletop Puck (HTP) aims at supporting experimentation with and development of inexpensive tabletop haptic interfaces in a do-it-yourself fashion. The problem is that programming the HTP (and haptics in general) is difficult. To address this problem, we contribute the Haptictouch toolkit, which enables developers to rapidly prototype haptic tabletop applications. Our toolkit is structured in three layers that enable programmers to: (1) directly control the device, (2) create customized combinable haptic behaviors (e.g., softness, oscillation), and (3) use visuals (e.g., shapes, images, buttons) to quickly make use of these behaviors. In our preliminary exploration we found that programmers could use our toolkit to create haptic tabletop applications in a short amount of time.
Citation
Ledo , D , Nacenta , M , Marquardt , N , Boring , S & Greenberg , S 2012 , The Haptic Touch toolkit : enabling exploration of haptic interactions . in S N Spencer (ed.) , Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction . ACM , pp. 115-122 , TEI 12 - Sixth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction , Kingston , Canada , 19/02/12 . https://doi.org/10.1145/2148131.2148157 conference
Publication
Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction
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Conference item
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© ACM 2012. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive Version of Record was published in the Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI '12), http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2148131.2148157 The copy of record of the paper can be found in: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=2148131.2148157
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This work is partially funded by the AITF/NSERC/SMART Chair in Interactive Technologies, Alberta Innovates Tech. Futures, NSERC, and SMART Technologies.Items in the St Andrews Research Repository are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.