Title :
The use of a proximity agent in a collaborative virtual environment with 6 degrees-of-freedom voxel-based haptic rendering
Author :
Prior, Anthony ; Haines, Karen
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Comput. Sci. & Software Eng., Western Australia Univ., Nedlands, WA, Australia
Abstract :
The extension of software designed primarily for a single-user haptic environment to a multi-user collaborative environment presents challenges on several fronts. This paper discusses the use of a proximity agent to overcome problems associated with the time allowances for collision detection and subsequent force/torque generation between pairs of dynamic objects in a voxel-based collaborative haptic environment.
Keywords :
collision avoidance; force feedback; groupware; haptic interfaces; rendering (computer graphics); torque; virtual reality; 6 degrees-of-freedom; collaborative virtual environment; collision detection; force-torque generation; proximity agent; voxel-based haptic rendering; Collaboration; Collaborative software; Computer science; Haptic interfaces; Object detection; Software design; Software engineering; Testing; Torque; Virtual environment;
Conference_Titel :
Eurohaptics Conference, 2005 and Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems, 2005. World Haptics 2005. First Joint
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2310-2
DOI :
10.1109/WHC.2005.137
