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Haptic Cooperative Virtual Workspace: Architecture and evaluation

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The Haptic Cooperative Virtual Workspace (HCVW), where users can simultaneously manipulate and haptically feel the same object, is beneficial and in some cases indispensable for training a team of surgeons, or in application areas in telerobotics and entertainment. In this paper we propose an architecture for the haptic cooperative workspace where the participants can kinesthetically interact, feel and push each other simultaneously while moving in the simulation. This involves the ability to manipulate the same virtual object at the same time. A set of experiments carried out to investigate the haptic cooperative workspace is reported. A new approach to quantitatively evaluate the cooperative haptic system is proposed, which can be extended to evaluate haptic systems in general.

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  1. Graduate School of Information Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Tatsunokuchi, 923-1211, Ishikawa, Japan

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Alhalabi, M.O., Horiguchi, S. Haptic Cooperative Virtual Workspace: Architecture and evaluation. Virtual Reality 5, 160–168 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01409421

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