Welcome to the KTH School of Computer Science and Communication (CSC) Haptic Lab!
Haptic feedback
Haptic feedback (supporting the touch modality) is often taken for granted in real life but it is still not common when interacting with computers. If you grasp an object by using a haptic device that is available today you can feel the qualities of the material of a graphical object, like softness, texture, weight, or viscosity. Magnetism and pulling forces can also be represented and felt physically. Haptic feedback thus makes it possible to feel graphical objects as if they were real physical objects and that makes them easier to manipulate. In this course the theoretical framework for haptic perception and cognition is presented. Methods for design and evaluation of different haptic interfaces as well as other tactile interaction methods are described. Application areas that are relevant for haptic technology are reviewed like for example computer games, computer support for collaboration, scientific visualization, and medical simulation. Students will learn how to design and program their own applications in laboratory assignments with different haptic devices.
Members
Assitant Professor Eva-Lotta Sallnäs Pysander, PhD
PhD student Jonas Moll, MSc
PhD student Jonas Forsslund, MSc, jofo02@kth.se
Courses
Beginning in spring 2011, we will give Sweden’s first pure haptics course DH2660.
This is an advanced course in human-computer interaction about methods for design, development and evaluation of haptic and tactile interfaces in different application areas such as computer games, computer supported collaboration, scientific visualization, medical simulation, and assistive technology.
The frontline research results regarding human touch perception is presented and how the human brain processes these perceptual events cognitively. An interesting question is how humans can use more of the brain capacity when interacting with and mediated by computers if more modalities than vision can be utilized.
Guidelines for how haptic interfaces should be designed are presented in the course and students practise to use these in the project they do and during laboratory sessions. In the projects, HCI-methodologies are applied in innovative ways in order to evaluate haptic interfaces.
We also give laboration and lectures in the following courses:
Research
We currently do research in these projects:
- Oral surgery simulation for training of dental students
- Interactive Virtual Biomedicine
- Multimodal Collaborative Environments
- Funkis
Equipment
- 2x Phantom Desktop, 6 DOF input, 3 DOF output, 12 Newton
- 3x Phantom Omni, 6 DOF input, 3 DOF output, 3 Newton
- 5x Novint Falcon, 3 DOF input, 3 DOF output, 12 Newton
- Nvidia 3D vision glasses, monitor and compatible computer(s)
Selected Publications
Jonas Forsslund, Eva-Lotta Sallnäs, Karl-Johan Palmerius, (2009) "A User-Centered Designed FOSS implementations of bone surgery simulation," World Haptics Conference, pp. 391-392, World Haptics 2009 - Third EuroHaptics Joint Conference and Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Tele Operator Systems, 2009. http://www.csc.kth.se/~jofo02/Forsslund_Sallnas_Palmerius_2009_World_Haptics.pdf
Jonas Forsslund, Martin Flodin, Eva-Lotta Sallnäs Pysander, Bodil Lund, Annika Rosén, "Adapted and applied simulation for wisdom tooth surgery training", poster, Association for Dental Education Europe's annual meeting, 2009 http://www.forsslundsystems.se/~jonas/adee_poster.pdf