Immersive Multimodal Interactive Presence

✍ Scribed by Christos D. Giachritsis, Angelika Peer (auth.), Angelika Peer, Christos D. Giachritsis (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag London
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 256
• Series: Springer Series on Touch and Haptic Systems
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Immersive Multimodal Interactive Presence presents advanced interdisciplinary approaches that connect psychophysical and behavioral haptics research with advances in haptic technology and haptic rendering.

It delivers a summary of the results achieved in the IMMERSENCE European project and includes selected chapters by international researchers. Organized into two parts: I. Psychophysical and Behavioral Basis and II. Technology and Rendering, it is an excellent example of interdisciplinary research directed towards the advancement of multimodal immersive virtual environments with particular focus on haptic interaction.

The twelve chapters of the book are grouped around three different scenarios representing different types of interactions in virtual environments: Person-Object (PO), Person-Object-Person (POP) and Person-Person (PP) interaction. Recent results of psychophysical and behavioral studies are reported along with new technological developments for haptic displays and novel haptic rendering techniques.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XIII
Introduction....Pages 1-4
Front Matter....Pages 5-5
Active Movement Reduces the Tactile Discrimination Performance....Pages 7-34
Weight Perception with Real and Virtual Weights Using Unimanual and Bimanual Precision Grip....Pages 35-49
The Image of Touch: Construction of Meaning and Task Performance in Virtual Environments....Pages 51-63
Psychological Experiments in Haptic Collaboration Research....Pages 65-90
Human-Robot Adaptive Control of Object-Oriented Action....Pages 91-103
Cooperative Physical Human-Human and Human-Robot Interaction....Pages 105-127
Front Matter....Pages 129-129
Data-Driven Visuo-Haptic Rendering of Deformable Bodies....Pages 131-155
Haptic Rendering Methods for Multiple Contact Points....Pages 157-169
Artificially Rendered Cutaneous Cues for a New Generation of Haptic Displays....Pages 171-188
Social Haptic Interaction with Virtual Characters....Pages 189-214
FMRI Compatible Sensing Glove for Hand Gesture Monitoring....Pages 215-228
Improving Human-Computer Cooperation Through Haptic Role Exchange and Negotiation....Pages 229-254
Back Matter....Pages 255-256

✦ Subjects

User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Robotics and Automation; Cognitive Psychology