Comparative Study of APIs and Frameworks for Haptic Application Development

Author

Popovici, Dorin M. ; Hamza-Lup, Felix G. ; Seitan, Adrian ; Bogdan, Crenguta M.

Author_Institution

Math. & Inf. Dept., Ovidius Univ., Constanta, Romania

fYear

2012

fDate

25-27 Sept. 2012

Firstpage

37

Lastpage

44

Abstract

The simulation of tactile sensation using haptic devices is increasingly investigated in conjunction with simulation and training. This work explores the most popular haptic frameworks and APIs. We provide a comprehensive review and comparison of their features and capabilities, from the perspective of a software developer. In order to compare the studied frameworks and APIs, we identified and applied a set of eleven criteria and we obtained a classification of platforms, from the perspective of these criteria. According to this classification, we decide on the best platform to develop a visuo-haptic prototype for liver diagnostics.

Keywords

application program interfaces; haptic interfaces; medical diagnostic computing; software engineering; API; haptic application development; haptic devices; liver diagnostics; software developer; tactile sensation; visuo-haptic prototype; Computational modeling; Haptic interfaces; Licenses; Navigation; Software; Visualization; haptic API; haptics; house of quality; virtual and augmented reality;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Cyberworlds (CW), 2012 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Darmstadt

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2736-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CW.2012.13

Filename

6337398