HaptoBend: Shape-Changing Passive Haptic Feedback in Virtual Reality

HaptoBend is an original device for providing general passive haptic feedback in virtual reality. The importance of haptic feedback in virtual reality is apparent through improvements in presence and user performance. However, most general haptic systems rely on a large number of props, or large, complex actuated systems. As a simple shape-changing device HaptoBend addresses this gap by allowing users to manipulate it from a flat plane for 2D shapes and interactions, into multi-sided objects for 3D shapes and interactions. HaptoBend is simple, yet diverse by leveraging the dominance of human vision over other senses to provide realistic passive haptic feedback with physical approximations.

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Publications

poster

Adaptic: A Shape Changing Prop with Haptic Retargeting

Johann Felipe Gonzalez Avila, John McClelland, Robert J. Teather, Pablo Figueroa, Audrey Girouard

IEEE World Haptics Conference, 2019

conference

HaptoBend: Shape-Changing Passive Haptic Feedback in Virtual Reality

John McClelland, Robert J. Teather, Audrey Girouard

ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction (SUI), 2017

demo

Haptic Feedback with HaptoBend: Utilizing Shape-Change to Enhance Virtual Reality

John McClelland, Robert J. Teather, Audrey Girouard

ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction (SUI), 2017