What you can see is what you can feel. - Development of a visual/haptic interface to virtual environment - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University

What you can see is what you can feel. – Development of a visual/haptic interface to virtual environment

Y. Yokokohji, Ralph Hollis, and Takeo Kanade
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE Virtual Reality Annual International Symposium (VRAIS '96), pp. 46 - 53, March, 1996

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a new concept of visual/haptic interfaces called WYSIWYF display. The proposed concept provides correct visual/haptic registration using a vision-based object tracking technique and a video keying technique so that what the user can see via a visual interface is consistent with what he/she can feel through a haptic interface. Using Chroma Keying, a live video image of the user's hand is extracted and blended with the graphic scene of the virtual environment. The user's hand "encounters" the haptic device exactly when his/her hand touches a virtual object in the blended scene. The first prototype has been built and the proposed concept was demonstrated.

BibTeX

@conference{Yokokohji-1996-14124,
author = {Y. Yokokohji and Ralph Hollis and Takeo Kanade},
title = {What you can see is what you can feel. - Development of a visual/haptic interface to virtual environment},
booktitle = {Proceedings of IEEE Virtual Reality Annual International Symposium (VRAIS '96)},
year = {1996},
month = {March},
pages = {46 - 53},
keywords = {haptic interface, registration, vision-based tracking},
}