Overview
- A first step towards standards for haptic applications
- Includes tutorial-like guidelines for device characterization
- Presents a holistic evaluation methodology applicable to any haptic device
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Series on Touch and Haptic Systems (SSTHS)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Basic Considerations
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Physical Evaluation
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Psychophysical Evaluation
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Synthesis of Evaluation Methods
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Back Matter
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About this book
Haptics technology is being used more and more in different applications, such as in computer games for increased immersion, in surgical simulators to create a realistic environment for training of surgeons, in surgical robotics due to safety issues and in mobile phones to provide feedback from user action. The existence of these applications highlights a clear need to understand performance metrics for haptic interfaces and their implications on device design, use and application. Performance Metrics for Haptic Interfaces aims at meeting this need by establishing standard practices for the evaluation of haptic interfaces and by identifying significant performance metrics.
Towards this end, a combined physical and psychophysical experimental methodology is presented. Firstly, existing physical performance measures and device characterization techniques are investigated and described in an illustrative way. Secondly, a wide range of human psychophysical experiments are reviewed and the appropriate ones are applied to haptic interactions. The psychophysical experiments are unified as a systematic and complete evaluation method for haptic interfaces. Finally, synthesis of both evaluation methods is discussed.
The metrics provided in this state-of-the-art volume will guide readers in evaluating the performance of any haptic interface. The generic methodology will enable researchers to experimentally assess the suitability of a haptic interface for a specific purpose, to characterize and compare devices quantitatively and to identify possible improvement strategies in the design of a system.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Performance Metrics for Haptic Interfaces
Authors: Evren Samur
Series Title: Springer Series on Touch and Haptic Systems
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4225-6
Publisher: Springer London
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4471-4224-9Published: 13 July 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4471-5803-5Published: 09 August 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4471-4225-6Published: 13 July 2012
Series ISSN: 2192-2977
Series E-ISSN: 2192-2985
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 132
Topics: User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction, System Performance and Evaluation, Computer Hardware, Control, Robotics, Mechatronics, Psychological Methods/Evaluation