“haptics on-demand”: A survey on encountered-type haptic displays

VR Mercado, M Marchal… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Encountered-Type Haptic Displays (ETHDs) provide haptic feedback by positioning a
tangible surface for the user to encounter. This permits users to freely eliciting haptic …

“can i touch this?”: Survey of virtual reality interactions via haptic solutions: Revue de littérature des interactions en réalité virtuelle par le biais de solutions haptiques

E Bouzbib, G Bailly, S Haliyo, P Frey - … of the 32nd Conference on l' …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Haptic feedback has become crucial to enhance the user experiences in Virtual Reality
(VR). This justifies the sudden burst of novel haptic solutions proposed these past years in …

Hapticbots: Distributed encountered-type haptics for vr with multiple shape-changing mobile robots

R Suzuki, E Ofek, M Sinclair, D Leithinger… - The 34th Annual ACM …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
HapticBots introduces a novel encountered-type haptic approach for Virtual Reality (VR)
based on multiple tabletop-size shape-changing robots. These robots move on a tabletop …

TORC: A virtual reality controller for in-hand high-dexterity finger interaction

J Lee, M Sinclair, M Gonzalez-Franco, E Ofek… - Proceedings of the 2019 …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Recent hand-held controllers have explored a variety of haptic feedback sensations for
users in virtual reality by producing both kinesthetic and cutaneous feedback from virtual …

Estimating detection thresholds for desktop-scale hand redirection in virtual reality

A Zenner, A Krüger - 2019 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Virtual reality (VR) interaction techniques like haptic retargeting offset the user's rendered
virtual hand from the real hand location to redirect the user's physical hand movement. This …

Roomshift: Room-scale dynamic haptics for vr with furniture-moving swarm robots

R Suzuki, H Hedayati, C Zheng, JL Bohn… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
RoomShift is a room-scale dynamic haptic environment for virtual reality, using a small
swarm of robots that can move furniture. RoomShift consists of nine shape-changing robots …

Capstancrunch: A haptic vr controller with user-supplied force feedback

M Sinclair, E Ofek, M Gonzalez-Franco… - Proceedings of the 32nd …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
We introduce CapstanCrunch, a force resisting, palm-grounded haptic controller that
renders haptic feedback for touching and grasping both rigid and compliant objects in a VR …

The self-avatar follower effect in virtual reality

M Gonzalez-Franco, B Cohn, E Ofek… - … IEEE Conference on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
When embodying a virtual avatar in immersive VR applications where body tracking is
enabled, users typically are and feel in control the avatar movements. However, there are …

Beyond being real: A sensorimotor control perspective on interactions in virtual reality

P Abtahi, SQ Hough, JA Landay, S Follmer - Proceedings of the 2022 …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
We can create Virtual Reality (VR) interactions that have no equivalent in the real world by
remapping spacetime or altering users' body representation, such as stretching the user's …

Reach+ extending the reachability of encountered-type haptics devices through dynamic redirection in vr

EJ Gonzalez, P Abtahi, S Follmer - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Encountered-type haptic devices (EHDs) face a number of challenges when physically
embodying content in a virtual environment, including workspace limits and device latency …