Adding tactile information to remote & virtual labs

This work presents different approaches for illustrating one process of determining in the lab the Young Modulus, a material property that describes its stiffness and so is one of the most important properties in engineering design. It describes briefly a classical experimental procedure in a traditional lab, a remote accessed system, a remote & virtual accessed system haptically interacted and finally, a new approach under development, a virtual system with haptic interaction. Along the text some constrains will be discussed and the evolution for this new development will include a short discussion devoted to the increase in capabilities of the virtual experiment when integrating force feedback information and the authors attempt to consider the richness of such a solution compared with others described.