Paper Info
Title
Haptic Retargeting: Dynamic Repurposing of Passive Haptics for Enhanced Virtual Reality Experiences.
Abstract
Manipulating a virtual object with appropriate passive haptic cues provides a satisfying sense of presence in virtual reality. However, scaling such experiences to support multiple virtual objects is a challenge as each one needs to be accompanied with a precisely-located haptic proxy object. We propose a solution that overcomes this limitation by hacking human perception. We have created a framework for repurposing passive haptics, called haptic retargeting, that leverages the dominance of vision when our senses conflict. With haptic retargeting, a single physical prop can provide passive haptics for multiple virtual objects. We introduce three approaches for dynamically aligning physical and virtual objects: world manipulation, body manipulation and a hybrid technique which combines both world and body manipulation. Our study results indicate that all our haptic retargeting techniques improve the sense of presence when compared to typical wand-based 3D control of virtual objects. Furthermore, our hybrid haptic retargeting achieved the highest satisfaction and presence scores while limiting the visible side-effects during interaction.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1145/2858036.2858226
CHI
Keywords
Field
DocType
Virtual Reality, Haptics, Perception
Virtual reality,Computer science,Human–computer interaction,Artificial intelligence,Haptic technology,Virtual image,Computer vision,Repurposing,Retargeting,Perception,Multimedia,Limiting,Stereotaxy
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-3362-7
80
3.50
References 
Authors
19
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mahdi Azmandian114710.06
Mark Hancock249531.12
Hrvoje Benko32576130.33
Eyal Ofek41865106.07
Andrew D. Wilson55065362.19