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Comfortable manipulation of a virtual gearshift prototype with haptic feedback

Daniel Thalmann, Patrick Salamin, Frédéric Vexo
2006
Conference Papers

Abstract

Improving quality, design and comfort is very important for high technology companies in order to stay competitive against the other enterprises. A present problem is that the new physical dedicated prototypes they need to create for the tests are very expensive and time-consuming. Another solution would be to create virtual and touchable prototypes. We would work with the Haptic Workstation(TM) provided by Immersion Corporation for the simulations. The user would be in a fully immersive, virtual and flexible environment h haptic feedback on his/her arms and fingers. We have developed with the help of RENAULT TRUCKS Cockpit Studies Department a completely virtual cockpit with a touchable gearbox prototype. At the beginning we only wanted to test the feasibility of such an application but in a second time we also made some biometric tests with the help of an ElectroMyoGraph (EMG) to verify the user comfort and his belief in the simulation

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Daniel Thalmann, Patrick Salamin, Frédéric Vexo
2006
Conference Papers

Abstract

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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/4a4b9a4c-0a24-4359-b9de-d6ab0b35ac4f

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