Haptic Intelligence Conference Paper 2017

Mechanics of pseudo-haptics with computer mouse

The haptic illusion based force feedback, known as pseudo-haptics, is used to simulate haptic explorations, such as stiffness, without using a force feedback device. There are many computer mouse-based pseudo-haptics work reported in the literature. However, none has explored the mechanics of the pseudo-haptics. The objective of this paper is to derive an analytical relation between the displacement of the mouse to that of a virtual spring assuming equal work done in both cases (mouse and virtual spring displacement) and experimentally validate their relation. A psychophysical experiment was conducted on eight subjects to discriminate the stiffness of two virtual springs using 2 Alternative Force Choice (AFC) discrimination task, Constant Stimuli method to measure Just Noticeable Difference (JND) for pseudo-stiffness. The mean pseudo-stiffness JND and average Weber fraction were calculated to be 14% and 9.54% respectively. The resulting JND and the Weber fraction from the experiment were comparable to that of the psychophysical parameters in the literature. Currently, this study simulates the haptic illusion for 1 DOF, however, it can be extended to 6 DOF.

Author(s): Ashok Kumar and Ravali Gourishetti and M. Manivannan
Pages: 1--6
Year: 2017
Month: December
Publisher: IEEE
Bibtex Type: Conference Paper (inproceedings)
DOI: 10.1109/HAVE.2017.8240358
Event Name: IEEE International Symposium on Haptic, Audio and Visual Environments and Games (HAVE)
Event Place: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
State: Published
Electronic Archiving: grant_archive

BibTex

@inproceedings{Gourishetti17-HAVE-Mechanics,
  title = {Mechanics of pseudo-haptics with computer mouse},
  abstract = {The haptic illusion based force feedback, known as pseudo-haptics, is used to simulate haptic explorations, such as stiffness, without using a force feedback device. There are many computer mouse-based pseudo-haptics work reported in the literature. However, none has explored the mechanics of the pseudo-haptics. The objective of this paper is to derive an analytical relation between the displacement of the mouse to that of a virtual spring assuming equal work done in both cases (mouse and virtual spring displacement) and experimentally validate their relation. A psychophysical experiment was conducted on eight subjects to discriminate the stiffness of two virtual springs using 2 Alternative Force Choice (AFC) discrimination task, Constant Stimuli method to measure Just Noticeable Difference (JND) for pseudo-stiffness. The mean pseudo-stiffness JND and average Weber fraction were calculated to be 14% and 9.54% respectively. The resulting JND and the Weber fraction from the experiment were comparable to that of the psychophysical parameters in the literature. Currently, this study simulates the haptic illusion for 1 DOF, however, it can be extended to 6 DOF.},
  pages = {1--6},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  month = dec,
  year = {2017},
  slug = {gourishetti17-have-mechanics},
  author = {Kumar, Ashok and Gourishetti, Ravali and Manivannan, M.},
  month_numeric = {12}
}