Design and evaluation of haptic effects for use in a computer desktop for the physically disabled

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Design and evaluation of haptic effects for use in a computer desktop for the physically disabled

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Proceedings of the 1st international conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments table of contents

Athens, Greece

SESSION: Reasoning systems and machine learning for assistive environments table of contents

Article No. 9

Year of Publication: 2008

ISBN:978-1-60558-067-8

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Brian Holbert	Spring Hill College, Mobile, Alabama
Manfred Huber	University of Texas Arlington, Arlington, Texas

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: NSF
NIST : National Institue of Standards & Technology
SERC : SERC
Motorola : Motorola

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

The human-computer interface remains a mostly visual environment with little or no haptic interaction. While haptics is finding inroads in specialized areas such as surgery, gaming, and robotics, there has been little work to bring haptics to the computer desktop which is largely dominated today by the GUI/mouse relationship. The mouse as an input device, however poses many challenges for users with physical disabilities and we feel that a haptically enhanced interface could have significant impact assisting in target selection, in particular for these users. To address this, this paper presents a study intended to evaluate haptic effects used with a force feedback mouse on a computer desktop and a prediction algorithm designed to focus those effects on the desired target. This paper introduces the proposed framework and presents experimental results from targeting tasks using differing haptic effects with a group of physically disabled users.

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