The Use of Haptic Guide with 3D Interactions in a large Scale Virtual Environment

Sehat Ullah (1) , Nassima Ouramdane (1) , Samir Otmane (1) , Paul Richard (2) , Frédéric Davesne (1) , Malik Mallem (1)

1 IBISC - Informatique, Biologie Intégrative et Systèmes Complexes
2 LISA - Laboratoire d'Ingéniérie des Systèmes Automatisés

Interaction techniques play a vital role in the virtual environment's enrichment and have profound effects on the uer's performance and sense of presence as well as realism of the virtual environment(VE).In this paper we present new haptic guide models for object selection. It is used to augment the Follow-Me 3D interaction technique dedicated to object selection and manipulation. we divide the VE into three zones, in the first zone the user can freely navigate and does't need any guidance, the second zone provides visual guidance to the user near an object and the third zone gives haptic guidance very near to the object. The haptic and visual guides assist the user in object selection. The paper presents two different models of the haptic guides, one for free and multidirectional selection and the second for precise and single direction selection. The evaluation and comparison of these haptic guides is investigated.

Domaines: Interface homme-machine [cs.HC]

Sehat Ullah, Nassima Ouramdane, Samir Otmane, Paul Richard, Frédéric Davesne, et al.. The Use of Haptic Guide with 3D Interactions in a large Scale Virtual Environment. 18th International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence (ICAT 2008), Dec 2008, Yokohama, Japan. (elec. proc.). ⟨hal-00957384⟩