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Development of a low-cost multimodal VR system for engineering design

Roper, Tessa; Lawson, Glyn; Abdullah, Che

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Authors

Tessa Roper

GLYN LAWSON GLYN.LAWSON@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Associate Professor

Che Abdullah



Abstract

Virtual Reality technologies are available at a lower cost than ever before. However, such systems are developed mainly for the consumer market, and inaccuracies in spatial judgements may make them unsuitable for specific applications like Engineering Design. There is evidence to suggest that the addition of haptic feedback may improve spatial judgements, but most commercially available haptic systems are impractical and unaffordable outside of specialist research settings and large enterprises. We describe the challenges for developing a multimodal VR system using only low-cost off-the-shelf technologies, and demonstrate a working prototype of a system which aims to overcome these issues.

Citation

Roper, T., Lawson, G., & Abdullah, C. (2017). Development of a low-cost multimodal VR system for engineering design. In DIS '17 Companion: Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference Companion Publication on Designing Interactive Systems (293-296). https://doi.org/10.1145/3064857.3079177

Presentation Conference Type Edited Proceedings
Conference Name 2017 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems
Start Date Jun 10, 2017
End Date Jun 14, 2017
Acceptance Date Apr 11, 2017
Publication Date Jun 10, 2017
Deposit Date Jul 18, 2017
Publicly Available Date Jul 18, 2017
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Pages 293-296
Book Title DIS '17 Companion: Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference Companion Publication on Designing Interactive Systems
ISBN 9781450349918
DOI https://doi.org/10.1145/3064857.3079177
Keywords Virtual Reality; Multimodality; Haptic feedback; Engineering
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/865285
Publisher URL http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3079177
Related Public URLs http://dis2017.org/
Additional Information Published in: DIS '17 companion : proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference : companion publication on designing interactive systems. New York : ACM, c2017. ISBN: 978-1-4503-4991-8. pp. 293-296. doi: 10.1145/3064857.3079177
Contract Date Jul 18, 2017

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