First Joint Eurohaptics Conference and Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems (WHC'05)
Haptic-Assisted Guidance System for Navigating Volumetric Data Sets
Pisa, Italy
March 18-March 20
ISBN: 0-7695-2310-2
In this paper, a new approach for navigation assistance through sets of volumetric data is presented. This innovative method uses force feedback in two dimensions to guide the user to a region of interest. The haptic feedback is calculated under two methods and we explain the implementation of both approaches. The output is displayed by the Proactive Desk, a two dimensional force feedback device developed at the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute. This new approach is targeted to scientists who work with sets of volumetric data and who wish to find information using visual scanning enhanced with haptics. Our system is designed for Magnetic Resonance Images (MRI) overlaid with functional MRI.
Citation:
Erick M?ndez, Shunsuke Yoshida, Haruo Noma, Robert W. Lindeman, Yasuyuki Yanagida, Shinobu Masaki, Kenichi Hosaka, "Haptic-Assisted Guidance System for Navigating Volumetric Data Sets," whc, pp.531-534, First Joint Eurohaptics Conference and Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems (WHC'05), 2005