First Joint Eurohaptics Conference and Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems (WHC'05)
Getting in Touch with a Cognitive Character
Pisa, Italy
March 18-March 20
ISBN: 0-7695-2310-2
We provide computer-animated characters with haptic interaction, allowing human users to interfere with cognitive characters. Our work presents an interface between control and animation of virtual characters (CONTACT) and HapTEK, a framework for haptic interaction of a human hand with virtual reality (VR). This way, humancomputer interaction becomes truly bidirectional, i.e. an animated character directly provides feedback to a human user, and vice versa, introducing a new quality with respect to the behavior of both. Our system for the first time offers the opportunity for human and artificial intelligence to get in touch.
Citation:
Torsten Bierz, Peter Dannenmann, Kai Hergenröther, Martin Bertram, Henning Barthel, Gerik Scheuermann, Hans Hagen, "Getting in Touch with a Cognitive Character," whc, pp.440-445, First Joint Eurohaptics Conference and Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems (WHC'05), 2005