A context-adaptive haptic interaction and its application

Abstract

Haptic is a promising interface for the next generation ubiquitous computing environment. Most of the haptic-related study is limited to the first person-based human-computer interaction [5], not a human-to-human communication. The proposed system is focused on the personal communication such as chatting or text messaging. Our system is designed to provide manipulation ability of multiple sensors and multi actuators into a single framework. Our contribution can be summarized into three part; (1) design of a framework for a multi-sensor and multi-actuator interaction. (2) XML-based data structure for a haptic description. (3) context-adaptive actuation control using feedback mechanism.