The HTML5 Haptics Plugin

Author

Al Osman, Hussein ; Cha, Jongeun ; El Saddik, Abdulmotaleb

Author_Institution

Multimedia Commun. Res. Lab., Univ. of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

fYear

2012

fDate

8-9 Oct. 2012

Firstpage

130

Lastpage

133

Abstract

The World Wide Web has gone a long way from its humble beginnings when simple browsers exclusively supported plain textual layouts. Nowadays, it is not uncommon for web browsers to support 3D graphics as part of a colorful palette of contents available for developers in order to relay intended information. With the formal support of WebGL in HTML 5, the stage has been set to even further augment the web experience with haptic enabled content. This paper presents the development of the HTML5 Haptics Plugin, a browser extension that enables a web based force feedback experience. Also, the paper discusses the development of a haptics enabled web application designed for educational purposes.

Keywords

Internet; computer aided instruction; computer graphics; haptic interfaces; hypermedia markup languages; online front-ends; 3D graphics; HTML5 haptics plugin; Web browsers; WebGL; World Wide Web; educational purpose; plain textual layouts; Browsers; Haptic interfaces; Java; Libraries; Solid modeling; Virtual environments; HTML5; WebGL; World Wide Web; haptics; virtual environments;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Haptic Audio Visual Environments and Games (HAVE), 2012 IEEE International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Munich

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1568-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HAVE.2012.6374449

Filename

6374449