• The Journal of Korean Institute for Practical Engineering Education
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.40-44
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• 2013

This paper suggests a multimodal interface control module which allows a student to naturally interact with educational contents in virtual environment. The suggested module recognizes a user's motion when he/she interacts with virtual environment and then conveys the user's motion to the virtual environment via wireless communication. Futhermore, a haptic actuator is incorporated into the proposed module in order to create haptic information. Due to the proposed module, a user can haptically sense the virtual object as if the virtual object is exists in real world.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2004.04a
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• pp.557-562
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• 2004

For constructing virtual environment it is more natural to model object as deformable body than as rigid body. High accuracy of simulation of model and low-latency computational cost for real-time simulation should be guaranteed. We pre-compute Green function through finite element analysis of deformable body and it is possible to simulate deformation of body in real-time environment using Capacitance Matrix Algorithm. Also, the capacitance matrix algorithm enables to construct the haptic rendering which serves the reaction force through a haptic device. The Newmark scheme is used for the more realistic haptic rendering and dynamic simulation in real-time.

• Journal of the HCI Society of Korea
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• v.1 no.2
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• pp.1-8
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• 2006

This paper presents a development of new haptic API (Application Programming Interface) that is called K-$Touch^{TM}$ haptic API. It is designed in order to allow users to interact with objects by kinesthetic and tactile modalities through haptic interfaces. The K-$Touch^{TM}$ API would serve two different types of users: high level programmers who need an easy to use haptic API for creating haptic applications and researchers in the haptic filed who need to experiment or develop with new devices and new algorithms while not wanting to re-write all the required code from scratch. Since the graphic hardware based kinesthetic rendering algorithm implemented in the K-$Touch^{TM}$ API is different from any other conventional kinesthetic algorithms, this API can provide users with haptic interaction for various data representations such as 2D, 2.5D depth(height field), 3D polygon, and volume data. In addition, this API supports kinesthetic and tactile interaction simultaneously in order to allow users with realistic haptic interaction. With a wide range of applicative characteristics, therefore, it is expected that the proposed K-$Touch^{TM}$ haptic API will assists to have deeper recognition of the environments, and enhance a sense of immersion in environments. Moreover, it will be useful development toolkit to investigate new devices and algorithms in the haptic research field.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2009.02a
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• pp.122-128
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• 2009

In this paper, we present a design and an evaluation of a hand-held ball based haptic interface, named "TouchBall." Using a trackball mechanism, the device provides flexibility in terms of directional degrees of freedom. It also has an advantage of a direct transfer of force feedback through frictional touch (with high sensitivity), thus requiring only relatively small amount of inertia. This leads to a compact hand-held design appropriate for mobile and 3D interactive applications. The device is evaluated for the detection thresholds for directions of the force feedback and the perceived amount of directional force. The refined directionality information should combine with other modalities with less sensory conflict, enriching the user experience for a given application.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.02a
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• pp.25-31
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 질감제시장치와 진동모터를 내장한 펜형 햅틱(haptic) 인터페이스에 대해서 기술한다. 본 연구의 목적은 다양한 장치에 적용할 수 있는 소형 질감제시 모듈을 제안하고, 개발된 모듈을 펜과 같은 모양의 인터페이스에 내장하여 그 성능을 검증하는데 있다. 본 연구의 수행을 위해 핀배열을 내장하고 있으며, 저전력, 저소음으로 동작하며, 수직방향으로 1mm이상의 변위를 일으키는 소형 질감제시 모듈을 개발하였다. 그리고 개발된 모듈은 PDA나 Tablet PC등에서 흔히 사용되는 스타일러스(Stylus)와 같은 펜모양의 인터페이스에 내장되었다. 펜형 인터페이스의 헤드부분에는 팬케익 모터를 내장하여 사용자에게 진동 촉감을 제공할 수 있도록 하였다. 개발된 펜형 인터페이스의 성능을 검증하기 위하여Mobile Tablet PC상에서 내장된 질감제시 모듈이 점자정보를 촉감으로 전달할 수 있는지에 관한 실험을 수행하였으며, 모든 실험은 그래픽 사용자 인터페이스(GUI)상에서 이루어졌다. 또한 모든 버튼 조작시 '클릭'하는 느낌을 재현하였다. 실험은 동시에 다양한 자극의 주파수와 시간의 변화 조건에서 시행되어 의도하는 촉감을 가장 잘 전달하는 자극방법에 관한 연구를 동시에 수행하였다. 또한 개발된 펜형 인터페이스를 이용하여 이미지와 함께 데이터 베이스화 되어있는 질감을 재현할 수 있는 방법에 관한 기초 연구를 수행하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.1-6
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• 2020

Patella surgery of small animal is an important veterinary surgery that the veterinarian should saw and drill the dislocated patella in order to fix the corrected position. However, the animal protection laws restrict the veterinarian students' chances for the practice and training of the patella surgery. This paper proposed a haptic based patella surgery simulator for veterinarian students. We modelled force feedback methods in order to provide best similar haptic feedbacks to the real drilling feedbacks in the patella surgery. The proposed patella drilling simulator provides haptic interface as a drill and a workbench in order to provide best surgery experiences. We conducted the performance evaluations in order to prove usability of the proposed patella surgery interface.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.691-701
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• 2010

We propose a haptic rendering technology for touchable video. Our touchable video technique allows users for feeling the sense of touch while probing directly on 2D objects in video scenes or manipulating 3D objects brought out from video scenes using haptic devices. In our technique, a server sends video and haptic data as well as the information of 3D model objects. The clients receive video and haptic data from the server and render 3D models. A video scene is divided into small grids, and each cell has its tactile information which corresponds to a specific combination of four attributes: stiffness, damping, static friction, and dynamic friction. Users can feel the sense of touch when they touch directly cells of a scene using a haptic device. Users can also examine objects by touching or manipulating them after bringing out the corresponding 3D objects from the screen. Our touchable video technique proposed in this paper can lead us to feel maximum satisfaction the haptic-audio-vidual effects directly on the video scenes of movies or home-shopping video contents.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society of Design Studies Conference
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.214-215
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• 2005

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.34 no.5
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• pp.527-533
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• 2010

The feeling that is evoked when products are handled has become increasingly important in the design of products primarily used by humans. In the traditional product design process, prototypes are built several times in order to evaluate the feeling evoked during use. However, these design processes can be optimized by adopting a haptic simulator that can serve as a prototype. The design method based on the use of the haptic simulator is called haptics-aided design (HAD), which is the main subject of this paper. Here, a new HAD method that can be effectively used to design a custom-made chair is proposed. A haptic simulator, which is composed of a haptic chair and an intuitive graphical user interface, was developed. The simulator can adjust the impedance of the backrest and seat pan of a chair in real time. The haptic chair was used instead of real prototypes in order to evaluate the comfort of the initially designed seat pan and backrest on the basis of their stiffness and damping values. It was shown that the HAD method can be effectively used to design a custom-made chair and can be extended to other product design processes.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.44-50
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• 2013

This paper proposed the implementation of haptic-based robot which is following a human by using fundamental sensors on robot arms without additional sensors. Joints in the robot arms have several motors, and their angles can be read out by these motors when a human pushes or pulls the robot arms. So these arms can be used as haptic sensors. The implemented robot follows a human by interacting with robot arms and human hands, as a human follows a human by hands.