“TouchVR: a Wearable Haptic Interface for VR Aimed at Delivering Multi-modal Stimuli at the User’s Palm” by Trinitatova, Tsetserukou and Fedoseev
Conference:
Experience Type(s):
Title:
- TouchVR: a Wearable Haptic Interface for VR Aimed at Delivering Multi-modal Stimuli at the User's Palm
Presenter(s):
Description:
TouchVR is a novel wearable haptic interface which can deliver multimodal tactile stimuli on the palm by DeltaTouch haptic display and vibrotactile feedback on the fingertips by vibration motors for the Virtual Reality (VR) user. DeltaTouch display is capable of generating 3D force vector at the contact point and presenting multimodal tactile sensation of weight, slippage, encounter, softness, and texture. The VR system consists of HTC Vive Pro base stations, head-mounted display (HMD), and Leap Motion controller for tracking the user’s hand motion. The MatrixTouch, BallFeel, RoboX, and AnimalFeel applications have been developed to demonstrate the capabilities of the proposed technology. A novel haptic interface can potentially bring a new level of immersion of the user in VR and make it more interactive and tangible.
References:
[1] Inrak Choi, Heather Culbertson, Mark R. Miller, Alex Olwal, and Sean Follmer. 2017. Grabity: A Wearable Haptic Interface for Simulating Weight and Grasping in Virtual Reality. Proceedings of the 30th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology – UIST ’17(2017), 119–130. https://doi.org/10.1145/3126594.3126599
[2] Inrak Choi, Elliot W. Hawkes, David L. Christensen, Christopher J. Ploch, and Sean Follmer. 2016. Wolverine: A wearable haptic interface for grasping in virtual reality. IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems 2016-November (2016), 986–993. https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS.2016.7759169
[3] Ronan Hinchet, Velko Vechev, Herbert Shea, and Otmar Hilliges. 2018. DextrES: Wearable Haptic Feedback for Grasping in VR via a Thin Form-Factor Electrostatic Brake. In Proceedings of the 31st Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology(UIST ’18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 901–912. https://doi.org/10.1145/3242587.3242657
[4] Yuki Nakagawa, Dzmitry Tsetserukou, and Kazuhiko Terashima. 2014. Development of VR simulator for nurse training. AIP Conference Proceedings 29 (2014), 29–39. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4866615
[5] Bukun Son and Jaeyoung Park. 2018. Haptic Feedback to the Palm and Fingers for Improved Tactile Perception of Large Objects. In Proceedings of the 31st Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology(UIST ’18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 757–763. https://doi.org/10.1145/3242587.3242656
[6] Daria Trinitatova and Dzmitry Tsetserukou. 2019. DeltaTouch: a 3D Haptic Display for Delivering Multimodal Tactile Stimuli at the Palm. In 2019 IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC). 73–78. https://doi.org/10.1109/WHC.2019.8816136
