Virtual Hand Tool with Force Feedback
Abstract
We present a system which simulates working with a hand held machine tool on a piece of soft material. A two degreeof-freedom force reflecting joystick allows the user to feel the reactive forces between the virtual toolbit and material. An experiment to investigate the effects on performance in a high precision task when the standard visual display is augmented by our force display system shows a 4470 (p < 0.01) improvement in accuracy but with time to completion also increased (by 64Yo). Users of the system find force feedback to be useful and feel that the system is a realistic simulation of the real world task
Department
Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping
Publication Date
4-28-1994
Volume
'94
Journal Title
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)
Pages
83-84
Conference Date
Apr 24 - Apr 28, 1994
Publisher Place
Boston, MA, USA
Rights
©1994
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.1145/259963.260058
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Recommended Citation
R. Balakrishman, C. Ware, and T. Smith, "Virtual hand tool with force feedback," in Conference companion on Human factors in computing systems - CHI ’94, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 1994.